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Quotes About Destiny

a destiny in the making is, believe me, not one of those honest mystery stories where all you have to do is keep an eye on the clues. In my youth I once read a French detective tale where the clues were actually in italics; but that is not McFate's way — even if one does learn to recognize certain obscure indications.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
No man can bring about the perfect murder; chance, however, can do it
~ Vladimir Nabokov
We all have such fateful objects—it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another—carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of special significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I would moreover submit that, in regard to the power of hoarding up impressions, Russian children of my generation passed through a period of genius, as if destiny were loyally trying what it could for them by giving them more than their share, in view of the cataclysm that was to remove completely the world they had known.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
We all have such fateful objects - it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another - carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of special significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I felt instinctively that toilets- as also telephones- happened to be for reasons unfathomable, the points where my destiny was liable to catch
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Mi corazón debe seguir andando. Excepto si tú ya fueras mi destino…
~ Vladimir Nabokov
the lot in life of any particular sheep depended on the type of man who owned it.
~ W. Phillip Keller
Bad Luck Card Cause you don't love me Is awful, awful hard. Gypsy done showed me Ma bad luck card. There ain't no good left In this world for me. Gypsy done tole me, -- Unlucky as can be. I don't know what Po' weary me can do. Gypsy says I'd kill ma self If I was you.
~ Langston Hughes
So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.
~ Langston Hughes
To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.
~ Langston Hughes
Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny."
~ Lao Tzu
The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet.
~ Lao-Tzu
Mira's never wrong. Whatever she showed you tonight, it's fated to be." "Fated", he said, sounding amused by that. "Well, shit. Then I guess we're doomed.
~ Lara Adrian
You have found your destiny, Gabrielle. Just like I said you would. I never told you it would be with me. ~ Lucan
~ Lara Adrian
God help her, she'd belonged to him from the instant he spotted her.
~ Lara Adrian
In spite of everything we've been through, there is still this. There will always be this. I know it as surely as I see the same truth reflected in his stormy blue eyes. We will be drawn together like this always, even if it hurts. Even if it destroys us.
~ Lara Adrian
Fine," he said. "You're right. We're not normal. We're the most fucked-up, star-crossed lovers in history. So let's not play nice.
~ Larissa Ione
Wraith rolled his eyes. If there was anything he hated more than cryptic shit, it was fate shit.
~ Larissa Ione
Be careful, little killer. The Fates can fuck with you in ways you can't even imagine.
~ Larissa Ione
The road to Hades is easiest to travel. ––Diogenes Laertius Enjoy the trip, because the stay is going to be hell. ––Hades
~ Larissa Ione
Vex had never believed in soul mates, but as her soul touched Zhubaal's, she knew the truth. They belonged together.
~ Larissa Ione
We all know that joy and sorrow are entirely matters of fate and have nothing whatsoever to do with planning.
~ Larissa Lai
God doesn't call the qualified. He qualifies those he calls." All
~ Larkin Spivey