Quotes About Destiny

Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

In his stay with the cultured old epicure, Casanova had learnt two Latin saws, which were to be for the rest of his life his gospel and his policy: Fata viam inveniunt. Volentem ducit, nolentem trahit. As we may say : Fate finds the way, and Life leads its lover, betrays its rebel.

Tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring...

The years like great black oxen tread the world And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?

When I think of life as struggle with the Daimon who would ever set us to the hardest work among those not impossible, I understand why there is a deep enmity between a man and his destiny, and why a man loves nothing but his destiny.

That which is possible is inevitable.

Sad was the Hour, and luckless was the Day. - Eclogue the Second: Hassan; or the Camel-driver

The Castaway" Obscurest night involved the sky, The Atlantic billows roared, When such a destined wretch as I, washed headlong from on board. Of friends, of hope, of all bereft, His floating home forever left...

No man of woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

He who, from zone to zone,Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,In the long way that I must tread alone,Will lead my steps aright.

For the arrow of fate cannot be parried by the shield of effort once God's decree has already passed another way.

But the ifs of history: if Cleopatra's nose had been one inch longer,' he said, 'would Antony have lost the battle of Actium?

If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

To live one's myth is to think in its terms. To fulfill one's myth is to suffer through its source.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

Why did she thus obstinately cling to an ill-starred, unhappy person?

Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

Thou knowest not but, as Isaac met his bride when he went into the fields to meditate, so thou mayest meet thy beloved while walking by thy meditations in this garden of the promises.