Quotes About Destiny

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend—Path, motive, guide, original and end.

the heavens are not humane, nor is any man with a head on his shoulders. Here

He could not turn back the clock a second, nor could he ever push it forward a second, so that what happened had to happen.

No, the heavens are not humane, nor is any man with a head on his shoulders.

Not until later did he realise he had never before seen her anywhere, yet it was somehow as if he had been awaiting her for a long time

We all have a past. We all have a future. But all we really have is right now. You can change your destiny in one moment, if only you refuse to do what you once did.

that we humans have little or no influence on the two most important moments of our life. Being born and dying. That felt like the right kind of fuck-you to the universe that a great punk rock song requires.

Once we are born, we begin to forget The very reason we cane But you I'm sure I've met Long before the night the stars went out We're meeting up again

we humans have little or no influence on the two most important moments of our life. Being born and dying.

Once we are born, we begin to forget The very reason we came But you I'm sure I've met Long before the night the stars went out We're meeting up again.

He was the large protruding nail on which destiny snagged her coat.

They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

Je l'ai tué, dit Angel. - Non, dit Petitjean. Vous l'avez poussé et il est mort en arrivant sur les cailloux. C'est un hasard.

A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!

Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.

Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.

In the end, we are our choices.

Der mentsh trakht un got lakht. Translation: Man plans and God laughs.

Whenever he visited, Broome couldn't help but think, It could have been me. One would have thought that would lead to a strong yearning on his part. It did and it didn't. His most immediate and powerful reaction was relief—a there-but-for-the-grace-of-God, whistling-past-the-graveyard sort of escape from his own destiny. But then, well, he looked at Erin's face and all that fell away. Years

All love stories," Maya's father had told her many years ago, "end in tragedy." Maya had shaken her head and said, "God, Dad, that's grim." "Yes, but think about it: You either fall out of love, or, if you're really one of the lucky ones, you live long enough to watch your soul mate die." Maya

He sat alone at the kitchen table of his empty house. This was not the life he'd planned. Man plans, God laughs. He shook his head. Truer words. Enough

Yiddish proverb: Man plans, God laughs.