Quotes About Destiny

Have all beautiful things sad destinies?

A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.

My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.

No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.

It is sad when two people turn from the paths they're traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.

Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.

Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!

Is the love you have for me, and the feelings I have for you forever parallel, with no chance of intersecting?

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

No, they can't. They can't be Luke Skywalker.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor

So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

You cannot hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that's left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has.

What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as yet been unable to unravel.

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.