Quotes About Destiny

Nobody can be held responsible for the pranks of destiny.

Just when I thought I'd never find you You appear.

Burke laughed, but there wasn't any humor in his voice. "Romeo and Juliet died, son. Consider that all the answer you need.

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

Love is the same as a safety pin missed in the lapel of chance.

Love is the same as a safety pin unsafe in the lapel of chance.

There is only one genuine misfortune: not to be born.

There is truly only one misfortune: that of not being born.

Destiny is not only a dramatist, it is also its own stage manager. That is, it sets the entrances of the characters on scene, gives them letters and other objects, and produces the off-stage noises to go with the dialogue: thunder, a carriage, a shot.

Give a man five years, and, with unfortunate exceptions of course, he will find his level on the Pacific, and his place, whether high or low, as naturally as a stream of water.

You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do. But then I look at the things I've seen and done, and I become a long scrawly line of something important.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

The quartz rocks stared at her as if they, too, wanted to go wherever she was headed. Once she was dressed she pulled the smallest one off the shelf and let it hitch a ride in her in her pocket, for luck.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do. I

I believe that there is a reason for everything that happens to us, everything we do, every choice we make. I

He realized that this tragedy was meant to be and knew intrinsically that from it there were life lessons to be learned by either her or those involved. Such was the way of life for humans.

Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.

Few indeed are those who get a choice. We do as we are told. We stand or fall beside those who were born near to us, who look as we do, who speak the same words, and all the while we know as little of the reasons why as does the dust we return to.

I suppose love falls where it falls.' 'Generally, one can see it toppling from afar, and make an effort to get out of the way.

Shoglig was talking shit. That old bitch didn't know when I was going to die at all. If I'd known that I'd surely have worn more armour.' Whirrun made a sound somewhere between a cough and a laugh, then winced, coughed, laughed again, winced again. 'Fuck, it hurts. I mean, you know it will, but, fuck, it really does hurt. Guess you showed me my destiny anyway, eh, Craw?

Your death comes.

I believe that, magically, the book we are supposed to read somehow appears in our hands at just the right time.