Quotes About Destiny

Si la Historia tuviera una finalidad, que lamentable sería el destino de quienes no hemos hecho nada en la vida. Pero en medio del absurdo general, nos alzamos triunfadores, piltrafas ineficaces, canallas orgullosos de haber tenido razón.

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

La imagen de la vida, en una comedia de marionetas; el destino figurado por el juego..., esto es el Limbo.

Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.

I am the only being whose doom No tongue would ask no eye would mourn I never caused a thought of gloom A smile of joy since I was born In secret pleasure -- secret tears This changeful life has slipped away As friendless after eighteen years As lone as on my natal day.

So instead of getting to Heaven, at last—I'm going, all along.

A single run of luck has made the fortune of many a charm and many idols.

In greatest minds' great thoughts earth's passed; betimes Fatal, foreshape the future.

Làm gì có vi?c s? m?nh ?ã ??nh s?n, n?u th? ta c? tiêu c?c, b?t ??ng m?c cho s? ph?n run r?i hay sao?

God hangs my slatted cage, sometimes On Skyey balconies of bloom; He lifts my latch, some rainy days, And lets me hop about His room; But when, at last, He thinks it time To tell me what the Others know, He'll lift the window toward the hills And let me go.

There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.

All women had been cursed from the cradle; all, in one fashion or another, being given the same cruel destiny, born to suffer the weight of men.

Oedipus did not remember the thongs that bound his feet; nevertheless the marks they left testified to that doom toward which his feet were leading him.

The fate of the home depends on the first night.

All ends in God; and many are the ways to find Him by walking straight before us.

Love is the poetry of the senses. It has the destiny of all that which is great in man and of all that which proceeds from his thought. Either it is sublime, or it is not. When once it exists, it exists forever and goes on always increasing. This is the love which the ancients made the child of heaven and earth.

Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.

In retrospect I realise that fate was a ladder on which, at the time, I could not afford to miss a single rung.

El camino está siempre marcado, pero no en un sentido fatalista. Cada instante, con la respiración, con la mirada, y con los días que se repiten, uno tras otro, se va decidiendo espontáneamente.

I was a firm believer in the idea that coincidences always came along at the right time. I felt there was some kind of reason for the way things happened as they did, like bubbles from my subconscious mind rising to the surface.

Ognuno di noi pensa di avere molte strade e di potere scegliere da sé. Ma forse sarebbe stato più esatto dire che sogna il momento di scegliere. Anche per me è stato così. Ma ora lo so. Lo so con tanta chiarezza da poterlo mettere in parole. La strada è sempre decisa, non però in senso fatalistico. Sono il nostro continuo respirare, gli sguardi, i giorni che si succedono a deciderla naturalmente.

I nostri destini si erano separati, e ognuno di noi era diventata grande seguendo la sua strada. Ormai tornare indietro era impossibile. I miei erano semplici rimpianti, che valevano meno di zero, un inutile spreco si per lei che per me, perciò cercai di ricacciarli via.

Strahlt ein Leuchtturm allzu hell, verwirrt er die vorüberfahrenden Schiffe und zieht die wunderlichsten Schicksale an.(...) Ich glaube es gibt eine bestimmte Art von Anziehungskraft, deren Daseinsenergie unermüdlich nach Veränderung verlangt.

Tu e io non abbiamo mica la fortuna contro, no? Siamo solo inghiottiti da questa atmosfera, non credi? Adesso è impossibile. Ma è solo adesso, che è impossibile, vero?