Quotes About Destiny

Happiness has more to do with where you are heading than where you are.

Happiness has more to do with where you're heading than where you are.

My worldview is that all success is luck if you track it back to its source.

They knew that their story wasn't over when their life was over—that their bodies, somehow, someway, were destined to be a part of that story, and so it mattered where and how those bodies were buried. When the day came to go to the "city" God had "prepared for them," they wanted to walk into that city together, as a family.

That letter was your whole future, you daft prince. It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But I found you, Deryn. Maybe I wasn't meant to end the war, but I was meant to find you. I know that. You've saved me from having any reason to keep going. We save each other. That's how it works.

What if destiny doesn't care?

Fate didn't care a squick about what anybody was meant to do.

She was nothing in particular. But at least she had a purpose.

Anything more than friendship with her would destroy his chances of taking the throne. But every time one of them had fallen – in the snows of the Alps, in Istanbul, on the stormy topside, in that dusty canyon – the other had been there to pick them up. She couldn't imagine Alek leaving her for some daft crown and scepter.

If they were meant to really be together, why had they been born a prince and a commoner? And if they weren't, why did she feel this way inside?

Qué otra cosa es el destino del hombre, más que soportar su medida y apurar su vaso? Y si el cáliz le resultó amargo al Dios del cielo, ¿por qué debo pavonearme como si me agradara? ¿Y por qué debo avergonzarme, cuando toda mi existencia tiembla entre el ser y no ser, cuando el pasado brilla como un rayo sobre el oscuro abismo del futuro y todo a mi alrededor se hunde y el mundo se pierde conmigo?

The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most of them labour the greater part of their time for mere subsistence; and the scanty portion of freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every exertion to get rid of it. Oh, the destiny of man!

True, the Immortals appointed Fame, and Fate, As the two ambiguous, doubtful companions

Good and evil come Unannounced, to Mankind:

Suelo decirme a mí mismo: Tu destino no tiene igual: comparados contigo, los demás hombres son felices; porque jamás mortal alguno se vio atormentado como tú. Entonces leo a cualquier poeta antiguo y me parece que es el libro mi propio corazón. ¡Qué! ¿Aún me queda tanto que sufrir? ¿Y antes que yo ha habido hombres tan desgraciados?

No es posible salvarte, desgraciado! No; bien veo que nada puede salvarnos.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it. What a thing our human destiny is!

The Lord: Whilst still man strives, still must he stray

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Wenn du fragst, wie die Leute hier sind, muß ich dir sagen: wie überall! Es ist ein einförmiges Ding um das Menschengeschlecht. Die meisten verarbeiten den größten Teil der Zeit, um zu leben, und das bißchen, das ihnen von Freiheit übrig bleibt, ängstigt sie so, daß sie alle Mittel aufsuchen, um es los zu werden. O Bestimmung des Menschen!

La raza humana es igual en todas partes. La inmensa mayoría emplea casi todo su tiempo en trabajar para vivir, y le abruma de tal modo la poca libertad de que goza, que pone de su parte cuanto puede para perderla. ¡Oh destino de los mortales!

Ey ulu tanr?m! Önce ak?l sahibi olup sonra onu kaybetmedikçe mesut olmamak insanlar?n al?n yaz?s? m??

Specia umana se poarta pretutindeni la fel. Majoritatea oamenilor isi intrebuinteaza cea mai mare parte din timp ca sa traiasca si putina libertate care le mai ramane ii inspaimanta atat de tare, incat fac tot ce le sta in putinta ca sa scape de dansa. O, destin al omului!

It has been my fate to sadden those I owe joy.