Quotes About Destiny

Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn.

Your eyes are to be my stars for the future.

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single, we do.

This weakness of character... suggested that he was the sort of man who was born to ache a good deal before the fall of the curtain on his unncessary life.

The boy's face expressed the whole tale of their situation. On that little shape had converged all the inauspiciousness and shadow which had darkened the first union of Jude, and all the accidents, mistakes, fears, errors of the last. He was their nodal point, their focus, their expression in a single term. For the rashness of those parents he had groaned, for their ill assortment he had quaked, and for the misfortunes of these he had died.

Marriage is only an accident of situation, situation an accident of history, and history of geography.

Era caduto dal suo modesto trono di re pastore fin giù, negli abissi melmosi di Siddim; ma gli erano rimaste una calma dignitosa che non aveva mai conosciuto prima e quell'indifferenza al destino che, benché spesso faccia dell'uomo un violento, diversamente è la base della sua sublimazione. Insomma, la sua caduta in basso era diventata un'ascesa, la perdita un guadagno.

Marriage is only an accident of situation, situation an accident of history, history of geography.

Thomas Hardy

rara vez el hombre digno de ser amado coincide con la hora de amar. Raramente dice la naturaleza «¡Mira!» al pobre ser humano en el instante en que hacerlo así puede conducirle a la felicidad; y pocas veces responde «Aquí» al grito de «¿Dónde?», hasta que ese juego del escondite degenera en un pasatiempo pesado y tedioso.

En la imperfecta ordenación de las cosas del mundo rara vez surge la criatura invocada; rara vez el hombre digno de ser amado coincide con la hora de amar.

È senza dubbio una disgrazia per un uomo che deve procurarsi da vivere, nascere con una natura realmente nobile. Un animo elevato condurrà un uomo all'ospizio di mendicità.

How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.

Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

the man to love rarely coincides with the hour of loving.

how seldom we recognize the sounds when the bolt of our fate slides home.

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.

Ako je lutao, bilo je to zato, što za neke ljude uopšte nema pravog puta. Kad bi ga pitali, šta zapravo kani postati, davao bi razli?ite odgovore, jer je obi?avao re?i ( a bio je to ve? i napisao), da nosi u sebi mogu?nosti za hiljadu na?ina života, zajedno s potajnom svesti, da su to zapravo same nemogu?nosti.

Sì: vi sono alcuni che necessariamente smarriscono la strada, poiché per loro non esiste una strada giusta.

Begin all over again? It would be no good. It would all turn out the same—all happen again just as it has happened. For certain people are For certain people are bound to go astray because for them no such thing as a right way exists.

Die Freiheit existiert, und auch der Wille existiert; aber die Willensfreiheit existiert nicht, denn ein Wille, der sich auf seine Freiheit richtet, stößt ins Leere.

Pois, em muitos casos, a loucura representava um relaxamento, uma vez que servia como refúgio a naturezas débeis e como medida de proteção contra golpes excessivamente graves do destino, que tais pessoas não se atreviam a suportar com lucidez.

Y quiso el destino que en ese preciso instante entrara Tadzio por la puerta de cristales.