Quotes About Destiny

Because if it's really true that there's no order, then anything can happen to us. Anything at all. There's no real natural law, no right and wrong that's immutable, and the world is suddenly a savage place where any number of things can go wrong.

Mary Beth considered the matter for a long time, and then explained in her simple straightforward manner that the future wasn't predetermined, it was merely predictable.

What makes you think anyone has a destiny? We do what we do and we die.

I'd known for a long time why I loved history. It was because the historians made it sound so coherent, so purposeful, so complete. They'd take an entire century and impose a meaning on it, a personality, a destiny—and this was, of course, a lie.

Heaven and hell wait for the young. Heaven and hell hover beyond the ocean before us and the sky spreading above us.

The men deserve what will happen to them. As a species, they will reap what they have sown.

It's Stella. Stella's got the gift and she'll get everything when I die.' 'And what's the gift, Miss Mary Beth?' my mother asked her. 'Why, Stella's seen the man,' Miss Mary Beth said to my mother. 'And the one who can see the man when she's all alone inherits all.

God kills, and so shall we...

We were on the Devil's Road together before all this happened," she said. "We'll be on it soon again.

Amadeo, the world now is yours," my Master said. "You must look at the larger movements of history.

He said at dinner last night, Not a day goes by, when I don't ask a cosmic question. Does life have meaning? Or is this all smoke and mirrors? Are we all doomed?

The belief in a special destiny is one of the most rampant and harmful delusions on earth.

Once again, I had failed to keep the secret. Even in Antioch long ago, I had failed to keep the secret. Would I always fail to keep the secret? Was this not my fate?

Maybe blood does not matter to the gods. Maybe blood matters to us.

It's the doom of beings to read patterns in the stars, to give them names, to cherish their slowly shifting positions and clusters. But the stars never say a word.

You forgot Oxalá, but he never forgot you.

Vecchie verità e antica magia, rivoluzione e invenzione cospirano per distrarci dalla passione che in un modo o nell'altro ci sconfigge tutti. E alla fine, stanchi di questa complessità, noi sogniamo di quel tempo remoto in cui sedevamo sulle ginocchia di nostra madre e ogni bacio era la consumazione del desiderio. Cosa possiamo fare, se non cercare l'abbraccio che ora deve racchiudere il paradiso e l'inferno: il nostro destino inevitabile?

end. Before I even meant to do

I wonder if she had seen the future-that the Talamasca File on the Mayfair Witches would swallow Aaron's life, as surely as the Vampire Lestat swallowed mine.

Amadeo was destined for me.

Her words were lulling me and making me believe that I was not miserable, but where would this path lead?

Do you think we find our destiny somehow, no matter what happens? I mean, do you think that even as immortals we follow some path that was already marked for us when we were alive?

The thirteenth is simply the strongest, Rowan, the one who can be the doorway for this thing to come through. You are the doorway, Rowan. That is why there were twelve crypts, and not thirteen, in the tomb. The thirteenth is the doorway.

The threads of your life, they aren't woven into any certain fabric.