Quotes About Destiny

Puede acaso el destino ser malo como un ser inteligente, y llegar a ser monstruoso como el corazón humano?»

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance

But the longer you live, the more you realize there are a lot of flukish things in this world.

L'humain vous gêne aux entournures dans la famille. Il vous faut un tête-à-tête avec le destin et la mort. Et tuer votre père et coucher avec votre mère et apprendre tout cela après, avidement, mot par mot. Quel breuvage, hein, les mots qui vous condamnent ? Et comme on les boit goulûment quand on s'appelle Å'dipe, ou Antigone.

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

But neither art nor aesthetics is alone in being doomed to this melancholy destiny of living not beyond their means, but beyond their ends.

Our entire reality has become experimental. In the absence of any stable destiny, modern man has reached the point of unlimited experimentation on himself.

Todos os grandes esquemas da razão sofreram o mesmo destino. Eles só descreveram sua trajetória, só seguiram o curso de sua história no diminuto topo da camada social detentora do sentido (e em particular do sentido social), mas no essencial somente penetraram nas massas ao preço de um desvio, de uma distorção radical.

Against the hypothesis of uncertainty: the illusion of truth and reality. Against the hypothesis of destiny: the illusion of freedom. Against the hypothesis of evil [Mal]: the illusion of misfortune [malheur]. Against the hypothesis of thought, the illusion of Artificial Intelligence. Against the hypothesis of the event: the illusion of information. Against the hypothesis of becoming: the illusion of change.

The shores run together, the waters are parallel. The waters run together, the shores are parallel. A single leaf rustles, the others are silent. Who knows how this dream ends? He was so thin, so translucent, that he had to pass through the same place twice to leave a shadow. Living out a destiny of convenience the way others sail under a flag of convenience.

There is something stupid about raw events of which Destiny, if it exists, cannot be insensible. There is something stupid about self-evidence and truth from which a superior irony cannot but spare us. Thus everything is expiated one way or another. Forgetting or mourning are no more then the period of time required by reversibility.

If destiny is implacable, that is because you have not known how to please it.

What is deeply ingrained within us is this possibility of expecting everything from someone at each new meeting. In our own minds, we are all virgins and hope, against all good sense, to find a destiny in any face that comes along.

The map of our life is folded in such a way that we cannot see one main road across it, but as it is opened out, we are constantly seeing new side roads. We think we are choosing, and we have no choice.

I grant you that, if you'll admit, as I do, that we are pawns of an unknown force that lives within us that dictates our actions and compels us to speak this language.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.

A menudo encontramos nuestro destino por los caminos que tomamos para evitarlo.

I actually think there are lots of good matches for each person, and they cross our paths all the time, but we're so wedded to the idea of love at first sight that we can miss the really great people who don't come with a thunderbolt attached.

My birth was my first misfortune.

You need no call, you were born to this destiny. But you will be tested. You will cause pain and suffer for it Ã¢â'¬Â¦

People are like dice, you throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing....

La libertad es lo q haces con lo q está hecho para ti