Quotes About Destiny

I think of how and where all the horrible people I've come across in my life ended up, and I smile.

Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself.

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.

You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.

Die hellen Tage behalte ich, die dunklen gebe ich dem Schicksal zurück.

Pues la ambición sólo se inflama ante lo azaroso del éxito y el logro fácil, pero nada eleva el corazón de modo tan espléndido como la caída de un hombre en lucha contra el predominio invencible del destino. Esa es la más grandiosa tragedia de todos los tiempos, la que de cundo en cuando logra crear algún poeta, y la vida miles de veces.

Sólo la mitad de la acción es obra nuestra: el principio y el final, la causa y el efecto, pertenecen a los dioses.

Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing; but before you realize its magical power, it's gotten under your skin, become part of you and your destiny.

Only in youth does coincidence seem the same as fate. Later, we know that the real course of our lives is decided within us; our paths may seem to diverge from our wishes in a confused and pointless way, but in the end the way always leads us to our invisible destination.

La naturaleza del amor implica —tal como lo observó Lucano dos milenios atrás y lo repitió Francis Bacon muchos siglos más tarde— ser un rehén del destino.

Las grandes posesiones eran una señal o un indicio de una existencia protegida, bien consolidada, inmune a los futuros caprichos del destino: se les confiaba el cuidado de la vida de sus dueños contra los incontrolables caprichos del destino. Como la seguridad a largo plazo era un valor primordial y un objetivo prioritario, los bienes adquiridos no eran para consumo inmediato.

Y por eso es imposible aprender a amar, tal como no se puede aprender a morir. Y nadie puede aprender el elusivo —el inexistente aunque intensamente deseado— arte de no caer en sus garras, de mantenerse fuera de su alcance. Cuando llegue el momento, el amor y la muerte caerán sobre nosotros, a pesar de que no tenemos ni un indicio de cuándo llegará ese momento.

Can a man escape what Fate has doomed? It is useless for a man to be anxious the last days of his life.

How could I disbelieve? Charms are in our destiny.

We all carry many selves, but in the end, these are just phantoms of possibility, nothing more than ghosts of broken destinies.

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.

Obedient to her captain's will, The Black Pearl followed her dark angel over the azure water; as fast as the wind, as free as the men who sailed her. it was almost as though she knew she was a legend in the making, destined for adventures both great and terrible...

Maybe there are clusters of souls born again and again into the same repertory company, and with each new birth they play different parts in a different play. Or maybe it's the same play. This would account for those moments of Oh! there you are! After all, there are those people we like and dislike, there are those people we love, and then there are those we recognize. These are the unbreakable connections.

The pervasive attitude of fatalism among Indians of all classes was yet another factor affecting the spirit of Indian armies—victory and defeat were not in their hands, they believed; whatever was destined to happen would happen. This

For the pious person, destiny means not simply to accomplish, but to contribute.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.