Quotes About Destiny

Muss es sein? Es muss sein!

The goals we pursue are always veiled... The thing that gives us our every move its meaning is always unknown to us.

O acaso tem seus sortilégios, a necessidade não. Para que um amor seja inesquecível, é preciso que os acasos se encontrem nele desde o primeiro instante como os pássaros nos ombros de São Francisco de Assis.

Non certo la necessità, bensì il caso è pieno di magia. Se l'amore deve essere indimenticabile, fin dal primo istante devono posarsi su di esso le coincidenze, come gli uccelli sulle spalle di Francesco d'Assisi.

And I felt fear. Fear of that bleak horizon, fear of that destiny. I felt my soul shriveling, I felt it retreating, and I was frightened by the thought that it could not escape its encirclement.

Murder simply hastens a bit what God will eventually see to on His own.

?loveško življenje se dogodi le enkrat, zato ne bomo nikoli zanesljivo vedeli, katera naša odlo?itev je bila prava in katera napa?na, zakaj v dani situaciji smo se lahko odlo?ili le enkrat. Ni nam bilo dano nobeno drugo, tretje življenje, da bi mogli razli?ne odlo?itve primerjati med seboj.

No es la necesidad, sino la casualidad la que esta llena de encantos, si el amor debe ser inolvidable, las casualidades deben volar hacia el, desde el primer momento

una decisión de peso, va unida a la voz del destino; el peso, la necesidad y el valor son tres conceptos internamente unidos: sólo aquello que es necesario, tiene peso; solo aquello que tiene peso, vale.

Let us suppose that such is the case, that somewhere in the world each of us has a partner who once formed part of our body. Tomas's other part is the young woman he dreamed about. The trouble is, man does not find the other part of himself. Instead, he is sent a Tereza in a bulrush basket. But what happens if he nevertheless later meets the one who was meant for him, the other part of himself? Whom is he to prefer? The woman from the bulrush basket or the woman from Plato's myth?

Sólo la casualidad puede aparecer ante nosotros como un mensaje.

la vida humana acontece solo una vez y por eso nunca podremos averiguar cuáles de nuestras decisiones fueron correctas y cuáles incorrectas.

Ma non è invece giusto il contrario, che un avvenimento è tanto più significativo e privilegiato quanti più casi fortuiti intervengono a determinarlo? Soltanto il caso può apparirci come un messaggio. Ciò che avviene per necessità, ciò che è atteso, che si ripete ogni giorno, tutto ciò è muto. Soltanto il caso ci parla. Cerchiamo di leggervi dentro come gli zingari leggono le immagini formate dai fondi del caffè in una tazzina.

Necessity knows no magic formulae—they are all left to chance.

She took after her mother, and not only physically. I sometimes have the feeling that her entire life was merely a continuation of her mother's, much as the course of a ball on the billiard table is merely the continuation of the player's arm movement. Where and when did it begin, the movement that later turned into Tereza's life?

Si el amor debe ser inolvidable, las casualidades deben volar hacia él desde el primer momento, como los pájaros hacia los hombros de San Francisco de Asís.

Ä°ÅŸte insanoÄŸlunun bütün bahts?zl??? burada yat?yor. Ä°nsan zaman? bir döngü izlemiyor; onun yerine dümdüz bir çizgide ileriye doÄŸru gidiyor. Ä°nsan bu yüzden mutlu olam?yor; mutluluk yinelenmeye duyulan özlemdir.

La vida humana acontece solo una vez y por eso nunca podemos averiguar cuáles de nuestras decisiones fueron correctas y cuáles fueron incorrectas.

Si el amor debe ser inolvidable, las casualidades deben volar hacia él desde el primer momento.

Fueron posiblemente aquellas casualidades las que pusieron su amor en movimiento y se convirtieron en una fuente de energía que ella no agotará hasta el fin de su vida.

Nicht die Notwendigkeit, sondern der Zufall ist voller Zauber. Soll die Liebe unvergeßlich sein, so müssen sich vom ersten Augenblick an Zufälle auf ihr niederlassen wie die Vögel auf den Schultern des Franz von Assisi.

He felt responsible for his destiny, but his destiny did not feel responsible for him.

Just turned twenty. And from then on, everything was determined once and for all. I made one mistake then, a mistake that's hard to define and impossible to grasp, but one that determined my entire life and that I never managed to repair.

conclusion that the love story of his life exemplified not "Es muss sein!" (It must be so), but rather "Es könnte auch anders sein" (It could just as well be otherwise).