Quotes About Destiny

I know what's coming you see. I know no one beats these odds and I know it's a matter of getting used to that and realizing that you are expelled from your mother's uterus as if shot from a cannon towards a barn door studded with old nail files and rusty hooks. It's a matter of how you use up the intervening time in an intelligent and ironic way; and try not to do anything ghastly to your fellow creatures.

Death is] one thing one is certainly born to do.

Smiješno mi je sada toga se i sjetiti: kada sam prvi put sreo Ota, pomislio sam da ?emo zajedno proživjeti do kraja života.

The only thing our choices can affect or change is the future. So it seems to me that the future is where our attention can be most usefully directed.

I hold the Fates bound fast in iron chains, And with my hand turn Fortune's wheel about;

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned.

She set the course of his life with just a smile.

In fact, he sorely hoped that it would happen, because otherwise, the world made no sense, there was no justice, and life was just a tangled ball of chaos.

Fate does not favor the dim.

Mr. Asher, you can resist who you are for only so long. Finally, you just decide to go with fate.

I'm fucked. We're fucked. Together. Like Romeo and Juliet, only we get to be in a sequel.

You cannot believe what you do not believe, Rumi siad. I am an Untouchable because my karma dictates it.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. —Dag Hammarskjöld

Grausam und erbarmungslos rollen sie dahin, die Stahlgürtelreifen des Schicksals

Congratulations, you have been chosen to act as Death, it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

What a bawdy bitch is fate when the best bit of a bloke's day is a brace of bloody mermaid murders.

Some time ago, the Luminatus, or the Great Death, who kept balance between light and darkness, ceased to be. Since then, Forces of Darkness have been trying to rise from below. You are all that stands between them and destruction of the collective soul of humanity. Try not to screw up.

You do not cause death, you do not prevent death, you are a servant of Destiny, not its agent. Get over yourself.

If it be not destiny, then surely there is plausible deniability, which in the parlance of politics is the same thing.

Das Leben war Handeln, es gab keinen Frieden diesseits des Grabes.

Christopher Paolini

Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?

The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

Christopher Paolini