Quotes About Destiny

What superhuman power drove you on? OEDIPUS: Apollo, friends, Apollo— he ordained my agonies—these, my pains on pains!

What grief can crown this grief? It's mine alone, my destiny—I am Oedipus!

All men must cast away the great blasphemer, the curse now brought to light by the gods, the son of Laius—I, my father's son!

Jumalat eivät voi tehdä mitä eivät tahdo.

Enter OEDIPUS, blinded, led by a boy.

no skill in the world, nothing human can penetrate the future.

The punishment begins here—where will the end be?

ÖDIPUS. Wie packt mich, da ich eben dich gehört hab, Frau, der Seele Irrlauf und Erschütterung des Geistes!

IOKASTE. So ging das Gerücht und ist noch nicht verstummt.

The mighty words of the proud are paid in full with mighty blows of fate, and at long last those blows will teach us wisdom.

O gra?ani otadžbine Tebe, evo Edipa, znalca ?udesne zagonetke i prvog ?oveka, ?iju sre?u niko nije gledao bez zavisti! Gledajte u kakav ponor sudbe grozne pade on! Zato nikog, dan dok onaj poslednji ne do?eka, ne?u proslavljati kao sre?na, pre no doplovi kraju veka svog a nikakav ne pogodi ga jad.

vengeance no one outruns

Not to be born at all Is best, far best that can befall, Next best, when born, with least delay. To trace the backward way.

ÖDIPUS. Nun denn, von neuem werd ich, abermals, das Dunkel lichten.

Once you are born in this world you're old enough to die.

Es una eterna ley del amor, que dos seres deben sentirse nacidos uno para el otro desde el primer momento en que comenzaron a amarse

Where do we people go if not towards the perfection of our own illusion?

And now, I'm glad I didn't know the way it all would end, the way it all would go. Our lives are better left to chance, I could've missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the Dance.

See karma, make dharma

No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.

It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.

I don't discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can't be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.

You speak what you believe, and you believe you're doomed. If there's one thing I've learned throughout the years, it's that what you believe is the impetus for your entire life.

Every path serves a purpose.