Quotes About Destiny

The day will happen whether or not you get up.

Não!, nem o passar dos anos, nem as voltas do destino poderiam apagar a impressão fulminante que ele causou em mim... Sim! querido objeto de minha primeira paixão, guardarei para sempre a lembrança de tua primeira aparição diante de meus olhos embevecidos... ela te traz de volta ao presente, e eu te vejo diante de mim!

Can I ever come back here' he asked, and the Woodsman said something very strange in reply. 'Most people come back here,' he said, 'in the end

Each of us has only one life to live, and one life to give. There is no glory in throwing it away where there is no hope.

If 'why' was the first and last question, then 'because I was curious to see what would happen' was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.

Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart.

In the end, we'll all face oblivion.

The answer is that there is no plot: plots are for the stage alone. There is no plan, no manifest destiny. There is only a series of events, some connected, some discrete, and this will be called a life.

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).

path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you're going on it is only a story. Where you've been on it is only another. Some of the stories are pleasant ones; some are not. That's dark and light.

John Crowley

He had thought the story was *theirs*, People's, that he was in it by chance, somehow impelled into it by reasons not his, that it was a thing torn out of Ymr that shouldn't be in Ka at all. But Kits was right, it was he who'd been in it, not People, however much they wanted to be and he had not. It was his story, and the stories about the story were his too. He was girdled in story, trapped in story, and the only way out was through.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

When fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Arms, and the man I sing, who, forced by fate,And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate.

All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

The ways in which we are able to express courage also depend on the hand life deals us.

Life has a strange way of working itself out

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.