Quotes About Destiny

If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.

The question of how things will settle down is the only important question...

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

And so there was no single cause for war, but it happened simply because it had to happen

I do not live my own life, there is something stronger than me which directs me. I suffer; but formerly I was dead and only now do I live.

He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.

Those are the men,' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.

We won't be friends, you know that yourself. And whether we will be the happiest or the unhappiest of people - is in your power.

Lihat dan kau tahu, jika aku ada di jalan yang salah dan kita tak akan pernah bertemu lagi

History – the amorphous, unconscious life within the swarm of humanity – exploits every minute in the lives of kings as an instrument for the attainment of its own ends.

I've got four sons in the army, but I'm not crying about it. It's all in God's hands: you may die in your bed, or God may spare you in battle,

But after all, while she was in the house, I kept myself in hand. And the worst of it all is that she's already… it seems as if ill-luck would have it so! Oh, oh! But what, what is to be done?

Whatever our destiny is or may be, we have made it ourselves, and we do not complain of it.

Such is the inevitable fate of men of action, and the higher they stand in the social hierarchy the less are they free.

Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people—that's in your hands.

And at that moment Pierre felt that Hélène not only could, but must, be his wife, and that it could not be otherwise. He knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the altar with her. How and when this would be he did not know, he did not even know if it would be a good thing (he even felt, he knew not why, that it would be a bad thing), but he knew it would happen.

One needs a vision of the promised land in order to have the strength to move.

Whether he is better or worse off there where he awoke after his death, disappointed, or found there what he expected we shall all soon learn.

Why did it happen this way and not otherwise? Because this is how it happened.

Kings are the slaves of history. History, that is, the unconscious, swarmlike life of mankind, uses every moment of a king's life as an instrument for its purposes.

La cosa estaría bien si supiéramos dónde ir a buscar la ayuda que se necesita para esta vida y qué nos espera después, más allá de la tumba.

Freedom is the content. Inevitability is the form.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. A deed done is irrevocable, and its result coinciding in time with the actions of millions of other men assumes an historic significance. The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the more people he is connected with and the more power he has over others, the more evident is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

There are two sides to each man's life: his personal life, which is the more free the more abstract its interests, and his elemental, swarmlike life, where man inevitably fulfills the laws prescribed for him. Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.