Quotes About Destiny

Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.

Who is fatal to others is so to himself.

A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with a book, pleasurable, sometimes fruitful, potentially world-changing, simple; and in a public library...without cost to the reader.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.

unfair—whether you live or die bears no relationship to what kind of person

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.

Luck's just another word for destiny ... either you make your own or you're screwed.

They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

She could have made different choices, but all that mattered were the ones she'd made.

I was very fierce and very driven at eighteen. But my basic philosophy I think has stayed the same, I'm still an atheist, I still believe strongly in the power of free will (despite the mysticism in my prose). I don't believe in the notion of a pre-ordained destiny, and I think because of the sudden death of my father at sixteen I learnt then that it is essential to live life to the fullest as it could be snatched away at any second.

Between a gasp and a sigh, a life can change forever.

As it was, then again it will be; though the course may change sometimes, rivers always lead to the sea.

Then as it was, then again it will be. Though the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.

Karma," Duncan said, "will always piss on your new shoes.

Eve looked at Greta and wondered if she was seeing her future, moving halfway across the country and spending her days cleaning up after death. Then again, wasn't that what she was doing now, only without the soap and sponge?

I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

Pearl is the only person I ever knew who said things like "paths in life" out loud.

I want to be Tragedy, I want to be Juliet, I want to be Romeo. Thus with a kiss I die.

The ragman is fate, but you bring him to pass. There's never a rag, but you make it, alas!

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

Where do you think you're going?" Dr. Nokes demanded…. "What do you have for directions?" And Dad… said, "I have the substance of things hoped for. I have the anticipation of things unseen

So thoughtlessly we sling on our destinies.

The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the nature of man and the universe, God and the soul, fate and providence, suffering, evil and destiny. Great poetry always has, like the higher religion, a metaphysical content. It deals with the same august issues, experiences and conceptions as metaphysics or first philosophy.