Quotes About Destiny

Our destination is the same in the end, but our journey - part chosen, part determined - is different for us all, and changes even as we live and grow.

All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own pattern ms and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.

All I said was that I thought it was a judgement from God that Blyth had first lost his leg and then had the replacement become the instrument of his downfall. All because of the rabbits. Eric, who was going through a religious phase at the time which I suppose I was to some extent copying, thought this was a terrible thing to say; God wasn't like that. I said the one I believed in was.

something very unlikely happened which by sheer chance mattered more to him than anybody else it could have happened to.

Perhaps we think up our own destinies, and so in a sense deserve whatever happens to us, for not having had the wit to imagine something better.

All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak are the unlucky, and the stupid.

La nostra vita è tutta fatta di simboli. Ogni cosa che facciamo è parte di un disegno dove abbiamo comunque voce in capitolo. I forti stabiliscono i propri percorsi e influenzano quelli degli altri, i deboli ce li hanno già segnati. I deboli e gli sfortunati. E gli stupidi. La Fabbrica della Vespa è parte del disegno perché è parte della vita e – a maggior ragione – della morte.»

La nostra vita è tutta fatta di simboli. Ogni cosa che facciamo è parte di un disegno dove abbiamo comunque voce in capitolo. I forti stabiliscono i propri percorsi e influenzano quelli degli altri, i deboli ce li hanno già segnati. I deboli e gli sfortunati. E gli stupidi. La Fabbrica della Vespa è parte del disegno perché è parte della vita e – a maggior ragione – della morte.

All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.

Just because your choice is predetermined does not mean you do not have a free choice before you take it (516)

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.

Those who deserve to die, die the death they deserve.

Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead.

Don't lose faith in your stars.

Somebody said that to become very rich you have to be helped by a combination of remarkable circumstances and an unbroken run of luck.

You start to die the moment you are boirn

Those who deserve to die,' he paused, 'die the death they deserve.

Fate rebuked him with terrifying swiftness.

Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?

I was irritated by the way he conflated his own shifting needs with an impersonal destiny. I want it, therefore...it's in the stars!

Factory settings—a contemporary synonym for fate.

Come si erano conosciuti, e come mai due innamorati dell'era moderna si rivelano così timidi e ingenui? Pur reputandosi troppo evoluti per credere al destino, restava paradossale ai loro occhi il fatto che un incontro di quella portata potesse essersi verificato per caso, determinato da centinaia di contingenze e scelte indi significanti. L'eventualità che non succedesse affatto era un pensiero tanto terrificante quanto possibile.

Only in fairy tales are unwanted babies orphaned upwards.

Birth, death, and frailty in between. Rise and fall- this was the doctor's business, and it was literature's too.