Quotes About Destiny

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome. ••• I

At sixty, I worshiped her with the volcanic ardour of eighteen. All the gold of my rich nature was poured hopelessly at her feet. My wife – poor angel! – my wife, who adores me, got nothing but the shillings and the pennies. Such is the Work, such Man, such Love. What are we (I ask) but puppets in a show-box? Oh, omnipotent Destiny, pull our strings gently! Dance us mercifully off our miserable little stage!

What are we (I ask) but puppets in a show-box? Oh, omnipotent Destiny, pull our strings gently! Dance us mercifully off our moserable little stage!

The only hope I have left for you hangs on a great doubt - the doubt whether we are, or are not, the masters of our own destinies. It may be that mortal free-will can conquer mortal fate; and that going, as we all do, inevitably to death, we go inevitably to nothing that is before death.

were we two following our widely parted roads towards one point in the mysterious future, at which we were to meet once more?

Così è il Mondo, così sono gli Uomini, così è l'Amore. Cos'altro siamo se non fantocci in un teatrino da fiera? Oh, Destino onnipotente tira con gentilezza i nostri fili! Abbi pietà di noi, e dalla nostra scena angusta concedici di uscire a passo di danza.

Destiny has got the rope round my neck – and I feel it.

Bir zamanlar bizi birbirimize baÄŸlayan o baÄŸ tamam?yla koptu mu? Sanki birbirimizi hiç tan?mam???z ve sevmemiÅŸiz gibi onun yazg?s?n?, iyisiyle kötüsüyle, hiçbir ÅŸekilde paylaÅŸamayacak m?y?m art?k ben?

Look where we may, the dark threads and the light cross each other perpetually in the texture of human life.

When Zeno, who did not believe in slavery, was beating his slave for some offense, the slave pleaded, in mitigation, that by his master's philosophy he had been destined from all eternity to commit this fault; to which Zeno replied, with the calm of a sage, that on the same philosophy he, Zeno, had been destined to beat him for it.

If Cleopatra's nose, said Pascal, had been an inch longer or shorter, all history would have been changed.

for every deliberate death there are thousands of indeliberate births.

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Quique metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum, Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari—

Argos the greatest tragedy in Greek legend was

When Zeno, who did not believe in slavery, was beating his slave for some offense, the slave pleaded, in mitigation, that by his master's philosophy he had been destined from all eternity to commit this fault; to which Zeno replied, with the calm of a sage, that on the same philosophy he, Zeno, had been destined to beat him for it.

What crime have these children committed that they should be born? If

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

I live in a hole here but God has a beautiful mansion for me elsewhere.

Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night...

That's all your life amounts to in the end: the aggregate of all the good luck and the bad luck you experience. Everything is explained by that simple formula. Tot it up – look at the respective piles. There's nothing you can do about it: nobody shares it out, allocates it to this one or that, it just happens. We must quietly suffer the laws of man's condition, as Montaigne says.

That's ally our life amounts to in the end: the aggregate of all the good luck and the bad luck you experience. Everything is explained by that simple formula.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born.

I can't do nothing. Just put it off. And that don't do no good. I reckon it belong to me. I reckon what I going to get ain't no more than mine.