Quotes About Destiny

mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

Two souls are sometimes created together and in love before they're born

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories.

Most of us are content to exist and breed and fight for the right to do both, and the dominant idea, the foredoomed attest to control one's destiny, is reserved for the fortunate or unfortunate few.

Daddy's girl. Was it a 'itty-bitty bravekins and did it suffer? Oooooo-tweet, de tweetest thing, wasn't she dest too tweet? Before her tiny fist the forces of lust and corruption rolled away; nay, the very march of destiny stopped; inevitably became inevitable, syllogism, dialectic, all rationality fell away

he considered that he would one day accomplish some quiet subtle thing that the elect would deem worthy and, passing on, would join the dimmer stars in a nebulous, indeterminate heaven half-way between death and immortality.

Every man is born a success, he makes himself a failure.

there seemed to be some necessity of taking all or nothing; it was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves.

Oh God! One minute it's my world, and the next I'm the world's fool.

One autumn night, years before, they came to a place where the moonlight stopped and change was among the stars.

Give me a hero and I'll give you a tragedy.

Oh, Clara!' Amory said; 'what a devil you could have been if the Lord had just bent your soul a little the other way!

single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.

Do you think that your worrying can prevent anything from happening? Whatever happens is supposed to happen and whatever doesn't, isn't.

I just wonder how many people never get the one they want, and wind up with the one they're supposed to be with.

Nos esforzamos por darle un sentido, una forma, un orden a la vida, y al final la vida hace con una lo que le da la gana.

This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're right.

Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a book-keeper for ever and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on my head and merely underline my own ridiculousness by their very beauty.

Ao toque adormecido da morfina Perco-me em transparências latejantes E numa noite cheia de brilhantes, Ergue-se a lua como a minha Sina.

O resto é a vida que nos deixa, a chama que morre no nosso olhar, a púrpura gasta antes de a vestirmos, a lua que vela o nosso abandono, as estrelas que estendem o seu silêncio sobre a nossa hora de desengano. Assídua a mágoa estéril e amiga que nos aperta o peito com amor. (Meu destino é a decadência)

Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny.