Quotes About Destiny

Two-Face was right. You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

My whole life, I felt like I was destined to do something important, but I was only ever good at videogames, which I always figured would be completely useless. But it's not useless, and neither am I. I think this is what I was always destined to do with my life. I just never knew it.

You cannot escape your destiny,' 

know the future is scary at times, sweetheart. But there's just no escaping it.

You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.

life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can.

You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.

Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.

In America, it's where you end up that matters, not how you get there. As long as you get there, no one asks questions. You don't ask. You never ask. And if someone does ask how you got there? It's usually a harmless person who never got anything, never got out, died paying rent as he waited for God to deliver him.

Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]

History is the footsteps of free men towards destiny.

O bien poseer un destino propio o bien equivaler a un número: ésa es la disyuntiva que hoy nos viene impuesta -ciertamente por la fuerza- a todos y cada uno de nosotros, pero el inclinarse por lo uno o por lo otro es algo que corresponde decidir a cada uno por sí mismo

Gracias a Dios, lo más que nos puede ocurrir es que nos maten a tiros».

We were all of us cogs in a great machine which sometimes rolled forward, nobody knew where, sometimes backwards, nobody knew why.

Il y a des chances qui tombent dans les bras du premier venu qu'elles rencontrent, des putains de chance qui le laissent tomber aussitôt pour aller avec le suivant, et il y a des chances avisées, au contraire, qui guettent une personne et l'éprouvent lentement.

Che me ne faccio delle girandole dei verbi? Non sono il padrone del tempo, sono il suo asino. Va bene per gli scrittori il passato e il suo ceraunavolta. E il futuro a comodo agli indovini che si arricchiscono coi pronostici. Io conosco le vite che durano un giorno e arrivare a notte è già morire vecchi.

Le plus souvent notre meilleur côté ne dépend pas de nous, il est confié à l'initiative d'un inconnu qui vient le réveiller par hasard.

Il futuro di un fiume è alla sorgente

tragedy is partly a matter of where a story ends.

There are several kinds of happiness, Washington. Sometimes it is not for us to choose, or even understand, the one granted us.

Ain't no man can outrun his fate.

What is luck but something made to run out.

I was born with a ring of luck at my neck. Luck is its own kind of manacle, perhaps.

Is it natural to sever low beings from their true and rightful destinies? From their natural-born purpose? To give them a false sense of agency? As if some creatures are not put here in the service of others. As if cows don't exist to be eaten." He turned his glass in his hands. "Nothing is accidental in the works of nature. Do you know who said that? Aristotle. He said, Nothing is accidental, everything is, absolutely, for the sake of something else.