Quotes About Fate

What could a mortal say to the merciless Fate? I forced myself to my feet. A'le-Ahnleh was the traditional end to a prayer. By the will of Fate. " A'le-la, " I whispered defiantly. By my will.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you.

No matter what you do—somebody, somewheres, knew that you would.

we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

Le destin passe et repasse à travers nous, comme l'aiguille du cordonnier à travers le cuir qu'il façonne.

Sait-on jamais, nos chemins pourraient se croiser!

Bu muskan?n gizli güçler ta??d???na hiç mi hiç inanmad?m, fakat insan yazg? kar??s?nda öylesine güçsüz ki böyle gizemli nesnelere ilgi duymaktan kendini alam?yor. Beni böylesine güçsüz yaratm?? ulu tanr?m, bir gün beni güçsüzlüÄŸümden kurtaracak m??

Lorsqu'une calamité s'est effectivement produite, on ne peut jamais démontrer qu'elle était évitable. Même si l'on en est soi-même convaincu. Et je le suis.

Bu halde hiçbir ÅŸeyim önemi kalmaz ve zaten ölümüm de yoldan olmaz.

À chaque époque, commente le moine Élias, il s'est trouvé parmi les gens de Kfaryabda un personnage fou, et lorsqu'il disparaissait, un autre était prêt à prendre sa place comme une braise sous la cendre pour que ce feu ne s'éteigne jamais. Sans doute la Providence a-t-elle besoin de ces pantins qu'elle agite de ses doigts pour déchirer les voiles que la sagesse des hommes a tissés.

Fakat Denia`l? ozanlardan birinin dedi?i gibi yazg? bir bukalemunun derisinden bile daha de?i?kendir.

Peut-être même que l'humanité entière aurait suivi une autre voie que celle qui est aujourd'hui la sienne, et qui nous mène tout droit vers le naufrage.

There's nothing new about this story of ours, such things happen. Love misses its mark, arrives too early or too late. Nobody dies, except in novels.

How had it happened that when choosing the men and women who were to be torn from this subjugated plain, the hand of destiny had stayed so far inland, away from the busy coastlines, to alight on the people who were, of all, the most stubbornly rooted in the silt of the Ganga, in a soil that had to be sown with suffering to yield its crop of story and song? It was as if fate had thrust its fist through the living flesh of the land in order to tear away a piece of its stricken heart.

Hamartia (n.) The flaw that precipitates the destruction of a tragic hero. Hamartia is a noble word, with a fine history (the OED says also that it refers particularly to Aristotle's Poetics). If you have any decency or soul, please do not use this word to refer to your own weakness for something such as chocolate. also

There is no freedom about this: the world gives, and you just take what you're given, with no opportunity to choose.

A cruel man cannot change another man's destiny.

For twenty-five years, Isaac Knapper had lived in my mind as a troubled young man who had learned violence in the projects and had simply acted out what he knew. It was a naïve story line, but it had allowed me to stay distantly sympathetic to him and his family. I felt better about myself for that, but I had no idea that I was participating in the same process that had secured his fate in the first place.

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

My father quoted everyone, from Shakespeare to Emerson, on the subject of destiny, and then he'd point out that except for the Greeks, everyone agreed: The stars do fuck-all for us; you must make your own way.

Although I won't pretend our paths are likely to cross, I hope you know that I will be delighted if they do.

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.