Quotes About Destiny

The road, Hwel felt, had to go somewhere. This geographical fiction has been the death of many people. Roads don't necessarily have to go anywhere, they just have to have somewhere to start.

And he goes around killing people?" said Mort. He shook his head. "There's no justice." Death sighed. No, he said... there's just me.

And no cheating, Lady. he said. But who could cheat Fate? she asked. He shrugged.No-one. Yet everyone tries.

I've seen men die valiantly. There's no future in it.

One minute walking along, the next minute dead. Why? THINK OF IT BEING MORE... DIMENSIONALLY DISADVANTAGED. Yes. I know. Beano relaxed, and stopped wondering too much about events in an increasingly irrelevant world. Death found that people often did, after the initial confusion. After all, the worst had already happened. At least... with any luck.

Don't worry! On another Earth it already happened'

Les choses ne nous arrivent pas, c'est nous qui arrivons aux choses

Sometimes when your life seems most out of control, you know there's a direction. I don't mean you can't have free will--in fact, that can be the most important part.

Our fate like the fate of all species, is determined by chance, by circumstance, and by grace.

The world is already split open, and it is in our destiny to heal it, each in our own way, each in our own time, with the gifts that are ours.

Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really hope for. No guarantees, no certainties

From the moment we're born, death is our final destination. Only the date and time of our arrival is unknown.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire'?

That evening when my destiny changed is a tattoo needled into my soul. I shall never forget it.

And when at last I find you your song will fill the air.

Wer für den Strick geboren ist, kann im Wasser nicht umkommen. (S.104)

How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?

Marriage was not only impossible but unnecessary. He had only to say "Come" and she must obey; it was her destiny.

But, oh, gentlemen, the ways of nature, or of God, and the Providence that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we may! It is man who proposes, but God—God—who disposes!

She wondered curiously where she would be when she died.

That's why this matter of inner peace is so important, because it lays a groundwork for that new life, that theosis, that transformation, that link with God, the ultimate destiny of our Spirits - not in the afterlife, but right here and now.

If I lose my direction, I have to look for the North Star, and I go to the north. That does not mean I expect to arrive at the North Star. I just want to go in that direction.

Eddie Jordan found me all the drives. If I am with Tyrrell today, it is because Eddie was there.

I figured I was going to apply to one journalism school and let fate take a hand.