Quotes About Destiny

Marching on a promise never given

Ublala, destiny is the fate you find for yourself. Many hold to the belief that it is preordained, as if the future was already decided and there is nothing you can do to escape it. I do not. Each of us is free to decide.

A Book of Prophecy opens the door. You need a second book to close it.

He sensed wry amusement in Hood. ' One day, even the gods will answer to death.

You could have just told him the truth. That Mael wanted him and wanted him badly. That we had to reach in and drag him out – he would have been far more thankful with all that.' 'Gratitude is a useless luxury in this instance, Shadowthrone. No distractions, remember? Nothing and no one to turn Traveller from his fated destiny. Leave Mael for another time.

Today, the empire is reborn. In violence and blood, as with all births. And what, when this day is done, shall we find lying in our lap? Eyes opening onto this world?

Now, after all this time, he was able to realize that every path eventually, inevitably dwindled into a single line of footsteps. There, leading to the very edge. Then…gone. And so, he faced only what every mortal faced. The solitude of death, and oblivion's final gift that was indifference.

Rake nodded. 'When you do, leave him alive. He has earned Dragnipur.' 'We

Toblakai, you will be needed.' 'To do what?' 'Why, to kill a god.' 'Which god?' The Malazan woman stared, discomfited for the first time since arriving.

It's just how it played out. Choices are made, accidents happen, the fates fall. Remember that, when our own falls on us.

I think the Crippled God has made a terrible mistake…

You took us, you made us into something, but none of us knows what, or even what for.

even if it meant pulling Oponn kicking and screaming on to this plain to face whatever lay ahead.

Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.

Its the actions one produces that will lead them toward the unknown.

You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.

The choices she's made have left her without choice.

life is a series of tiny, unavoidable decisions.

The choices she's made have left her without choice. There's

luck or fate or whatever it is that decides who lives and who doesn't has not,

It was a bright, clear day, and the car felt alive to her, as though the way she and the car moved together was a sort of destiny, and everything was happening exactly as it ought to.

If other people want to talk about my future I can't control that.

The more we know about science, the more we know culture and cosmos are connected, to such an extent that we can now see that the cosmos is inextricably intertwined with human destiny, both in the short term and the long-term, impinging on (and arguably essential to) questions normally reserved for religion and philosophy.

God is the decider and the determiner of every man's destiny, the controller of every detail in every individual's life, which is another way of saying, "He is God."1 — John MacArthur