Quotes About Destiny

I'm not certain whether I now believe in predestination or not, but that night I firmly believed in it. The proof had been striking, and regardless of the fact that I had ridiculed our forebears and their complacent astrology, I found myself thinking as they did--but I caught myself in time on this dangerous road, and having made it a rule never to reject anything categorically and never to believe in anything blindly, I cast metaphysics aside and began to watch the ground under my feet.

How many people, in the beginning of life, think they will finish it as Alexander the Great or Lord Byron, and instead, retain for the whole of their existence, the rank of titulary counsellor?

D'où vient le vent, vient aussi le bonheur.

Tout dans ce monde est absurde : la nature est bête, la destinée est simplette, et la vie ne vaut pas un kopeck.

Es muss sein. Es muss sein.

Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.

If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him.

From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good luck or bad to be born onto this earth, the best way to spend a life here is to let yourself be carried along, as I am moving at this moment, by a cheerful, noisy crowd moving forward.

Is not parody the eternal lot of man?

Missions are stupid, Tereza. I have no mission. No one has. And it's a terrific relief to realize you're free, free of all missions.

Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about?

A person's destiny often ends before his death.

Look around you. Of all the people you see, no one is here by his own wish. Of course, what I just said is the most banal truth there is. So banal, and so basic, that we've stopped seeing it and hearing it.

In the world of eternal return the weight of unbearable responsibility lies heavy on every move we make.

birds of fortuity flutter down on her shoulders...

La vida humana acontece sólo una vez y por eso nunca podremos averiguar cuáles de nuestras decisiones fueron correctas y cuáles fueron incorrectas. En la situación dada sólo hemos podido decidir una vez y no nos ha sido dada una segunda, una tercera, una cuarta vida para comparar las distintas decisiones.

Missão, Tereza, é uma palavra idiota. Eu não tenho missão. Ninguém tem missão. E é um alívio enorme perceber que somos livres, que não temos missão.

Tutti noi consideriamo impensabile che l'amore della nostra vita possa essere qualcosa di leggero, qualcosa che non ha peso; riteniamo che il nostro amore sia qualcosa che doveva necessariamente essere; che senza di esso la nostra vita non sarebbe stata la nostra vita. Ci sembra che Beethoven, in persona, torvo e scapigliato, suoni al nostro grande amore il suo Es muss sein!

By stablishing an acquaintance with Lucie, I too had set my destiny in motion; but I did not lose sight of it. Though we didn't meet very often, at least our mettings were fairly regular, and I knew she was capable of waiting several weeks and then greeting me as if we'd seen each other the day before

He felt responsible for his fate, but his fate felt no responsibility for him.

Jedino Å¡to nam preostaje pobuna je protiv sudbine koju nismo izabrali.

Rastlant?lar?n, sadece rastlant?lar?n söyleyecek bir sözü vard?r bize. Gereklilikten doÄŸan, olmas?n? beklediÄŸimiz, günbegün yinelenen her ÅŸey dilsizdir. Sadece rastlant?lar bir ÅŸeyler söyler bize.

That's how it is: even in the throes of death, man is always on stage. And even 'the plainest' of them, the least exhibitionist, because it's not always the man himself who climbs on stage. If he doesn't do it, someone will put him there. That is his fate as a man.

A whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing