Quotes About Destiny

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

You were to suffer your fate. That was not necessarily to know it.

What is character but the determination of incident?

The vice in the air, otherwise, was too much like the breath of fate.

I was on the point of saying that a happy chance had favoured him, but it occurs to me that one is under no obligation to call chances by flattering epithets when they have been waited for so long.

It was as if her doom so floated her on that she couldn't stop.

That's the least part of it—after it nothing will matter.

You were reserved for my future

BOOK ELEVENTH

ignis fatuus.

God himself can't change the future and still know what's going to happen.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.

We create our fate everyday

It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones, as much or more as from others. If we have not yet succeeded -after how many centuries?- in eliminating from life the elements which plague us perhaps we need to question life more closely. Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion. (p.26)

Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here it's different. Here every man is potentially a zero. If you become something or somebody it is an accident, a miracle.

I decided to let myself drift with the tide, to make not the least resistance to fate, no matter in what form it presented itself. Nothing that happened to me thus far had been sufficient to destroy me; nothing had been destroyed but my illusions(...)

We create our fate every day that we live.

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

Every man has his own destiny;the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him

There is no progress: there is perpetual movement, displacement, which is circular, spiral, endless. Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it lead him.