Quotes About Fate

Sex and death. Two things that come once in a lifetime. But at least after death you're not nauseous.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Everything that happens, happens at the only possible time it can happen, and it is always at exactly the right time.

El inglés necesita de un verbo fatalista para emplear la expresión "enamorarse": to fall. O sea que el enamorado no exactamente asciende a un estado superior, sino al contrario: cae. Tropieza, se distrae, es entrampado. Cae, igual que Luzbel. Si Cristo hubiese dicho "Enamoraos los unos a los otros", ya estaríamos todos viviendo en el Infierno.

Era obvio que no se iba a quedar, y si de pura suerte se quedaba iba a acabar odiándome. Te digo que los tipos decentes no me van. Les traigo mala suerte.

Death is the end of those who have done nothing to cause their names to live after them.

Once the buttons are undone, you know how it'll all end. It's all in the game, there are no miracles.

You have to stop worrying about things like that. The disappearances are beyond our control. They have nothing to do with us. We're all going to die anyway, someday, so what's the difference? We simply have to leave things to fate.

È proprio questo il senso di un esemplare: rinchiuderlo equivale a separarsene, così si compie il suo destino ultimo.

Like cars in amusement parks, our direction is often determined through collisions.

Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in--the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.

There's no more painful love than the love you feel when you're in a railroad station and you exchange glances with someone whose train is headed in the other direction.

Et puis, c'est la vie; elle ne nous prend que ce qu'elle nous a donné. Ni plus ni moins. (p.190)

Quant à ce que nous appelons fatalité, ce n'est que notre entêtement à ne pas assumer les conséquences de nos petites et grandes faiblesses.

You cannot change what's written in the stars. Liar! Later, much later, I would come to this realisation: nothing is written. If it were, there would be no need fo trials, morality would be an ageing hag and shame would not blush in the presence of vertue. Though there are things beyond our understaning, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.

Les choses se seraient arrêtées là s'il n'y avait pas eu ce coup de vent. Si on m'avait dit qu'un simple coup de vent pouvait changer le cours d'une vie, j'aurais peut-être pris les devant. Mais à dix-sept ans, on se sent en mesure de retomber sur ses pattes quoi qu'il arrive.

Des choses incroyables vous tombent dessus, détournent le cours de votre existence et le bouleversent de fond en comble. Vous avez beau fuir au bout du monde, vous réfugier là où personne ne risque de vous trouver, elles vous suivent à la trace comme une meute de chiens errants et font de vous quelqu'un qui ne vous ressemble en rien et qui devient la seule histoire que l'on retiendra de vous. Certains appellent ces choses "mektoub".

You cannot change what is written in the stars. Lies! Later, much later, I would come to this realisation: nothing is written. If it were, there would be no need for trials, morality would be an ageing hag and shame would not blush in the presence of virtue. Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.

Poverty, I decided, had nothing to do with fate; it was simply a state of mind. We accept the world as we see it; we believe it to be immutable. But if we look away from the misery even for a moment, another path appears, bright as a new penny, and so mysterious that we begin to dream...

Coincidences undeniably imply meaning. I am rereading Hart Crane. I notice the date On which he stepped off that boat Was April 26. Tomorrow is April 26. The year of his suicide was 1932. I was four. I am now fifty-one. One undeniable implication in this case then Is that the year, today, Is 1979. Afterward, Crane's mother scrubbed floors. Eventually, I may or may not Jump overboard. Are there questions?

A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

Maybe success comes from simply following one's destiny.

Jews have managed to hold on to a shared sense of history and fate that finds few parallels in history.

We are bound to the earth by fate, and by gravity, so we will have to plod along and follow what clues are available. I