Quotes About Destiny

Like swimming squirrels, you navigate with the help of Heaven and a stiff breeze, but you never land where you hope to—do you?

to whom does this free will matter?

Whatever I do, or consider doing, is really God's doing.

It may seem seem cynical to see all religion as basically self-serving, and indeed the idea has been put pithily by a famous cynic. H.L. Mencken said of religion, "Its single function is to give man access to the powers which seem to control his destiny, and its single purpose is to induce those powers to be friendly to him.

Life left us all where we were meant to be or where it was convenient to leave us and then forgot us, which is as it should be.

You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.

54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta Parra; torn apart, forgotten, in mass graves, at the bottom of the sea, the Trojan destiny of their mingled bones terrifying the survivors.

No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the police, that she'd been taking a walk and had come upon death purely by chance.

Ay, las casualidades -dijo Quim respirando a pleno pulmón, como el titán de la calle Revillagigedo-, valen verga las casualidades. A la hora de la verdad todo esta escrito. A eso los pinches griegos lo llamaban destino

Toda vida, le dijo esa noche Epifanio a Lalo Cura, por más feliz que sea, acaba siempre en dolor y sufrimiento. Depende, dijo Lalo Cura. ¿Depende de qué, buey? De muchas cosas, dijo Lalo Cura. Si te pegan un balazo en la nuca, por ejemplo, y el pinche asesino se acerca sin que lo escuches, te vas al otro mundo sin dolor y sin sufrimiento. Pinche escuincle, dijo Epifanio. ¿A ti han pegado muchos tiros en la nuca?

La relación entre el padre y el hijo es curiosa. El coronel, eso se nota de inmediato, ama a su hijo por encima de sus deberes como militar, un amor que naturalmente no es correspondido, aún le falta mucho al hijo para comprender al padre, para comprender la soledad, el triste destino al que todos los seres están abocados.

Amalfitano remembered a time when he believed that nothing happened by chance, everything happened for some reason, but when was that time? he couldn't remember, all he could remember was that at some point thiw was what he believed...

My friend (if I may still call him that) believed in humanity, and so he also believed in order, in the order of painting and the order of words, since words are what we paint with. He believed in redemption. Deep down he may even have believed in progress. Coincidence, on the other hand, is total freedom, our natural destiny. Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are.

What a lovely young man," said Estrellita. "And his darling balls are the color of gold." Jan laughed. "It's true," I said. "That means that he's destined for greatness. Golden balls are the mark of a young man capable of . . . great deeds.

Ambos habíamos nacido más o menos por las mismas fechas. Ambos habíamos rajado de nuestras respectivas Repúblicas, cuando pasó lo que pasó.

Cualquiera es capaz de morir»

brevedad de la vida, en lo insondable que resulta el destino de los hombres, en la futilidad de los empeños mundanos.

sobre todo si se tiene en cuenta que el futuro es un misterio y que uno nunca sabe a ciencia cierta en qué momento se tuerce el camino y hacia qué extraños lugares lo encaminan sus pasos.

Suffering is accumulated, said my friend, that's a fact, and the greater the suffering, the smaller the coincidence.

una cifra, pensó cuando volvió a quedarse solo, siempre es aproximativa, no existe la cifra correcta, sólo los nazis creían en la cifra correcta y los profesores de matemática elemental, sólo los sectarios, los locos de las pirámides, los recaudadores de impuestos (Dios acabe con ellos), los numerólogos que leían el destino por cuatro perras creían

Los veinte minutos iniciales tuvieron un tono trágico en donde la palabra destino se empleó diez veces y la palabra amistad veinticuatro.

Coincidence, on the other hand, is total freedom, our natural destiny. Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion. The communion of coincidence and effect and the communion of effect with us.

Je loopt altijd gevaar. Dat is de zuivere waarheid. Je loopt altijd gevaar en bent een speelbal van het lot, zelfs op de meest onwaarschijnlijke plaatsen.

Wonderful, wonderful, yet again the sword of fate severs the head from the hydra of chance.