Quotes About Fate

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

Die hellen Tage behalte ich, die dunklen gebe ich dem Schicksal zurück.

Pues la ambición sólo se inflama ante lo azaroso del éxito y el logro fácil, pero nada eleva el corazón de modo tan espléndido como la caída de un hombre en lucha contra el predominio invencible del destino. Esa es la más grandiosa tragedia de todos los tiempos, la que de cundo en cuando logra crear algún poeta, y la vida miles de veces.

Sólo la mitad de la acción es obra nuestra: el principio y el final, la causa y el efecto, pertenecen a los dioses.

Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing; but before you realize its magical power, it's gotten under your skin, become part of you and your destiny.

Ah, how fatefully swift is the move from one feeling to another.

Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.

Nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life.

Only in youth does coincidence seem the same as fate. Later, we know that the real course of our lives is decided within us; our paths may seem to diverge from our wishes in a confused and pointless way, but in the end the way always leads us to our invisible destination.

La naturaleza del amor implica —tal como lo observó Lucano dos milenios atrás y lo repitió Francis Bacon muchos siglos más tarde— ser un rehén del destino.

Las grandes posesiones eran una señal o un indicio de una existencia protegida, bien consolidada, inmune a los futuros caprichos del destino: se les confiaba el cuidado de la vida de sus dueños contra los incontrolables caprichos del destino. Como la seguridad a largo plazo era un valor primordial y un objetivo prioritario, los bienes adquiridos no eran para consumo inmediato.

Y por eso es imposible aprender a amar, tal como no se puede aprender a morir. Y nadie puede aprender el elusivo —el inexistente aunque intensamente deseado— arte de no caer en sus garras, de mantenerse fuera de su alcance. Cuando llegue el momento, el amor y la muerte caerán sobre nosotros, a pesar de que no tenemos ni un indicio de cuándo llegará ese momento.

Can a man escape what Fate has doomed? It is useless for a man to be anxious the last days of his life.

How could I disbelieve? Charms are in our destiny.

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.

The thought that this happened and then this happened and then this and this and this, the relentless march of event and emotion tied together simply because day follows day and turns into week following week becoming months and years reinforces the fact that the only logical ending for chronological order is death.

One deed of an individual may decide the fate of the world. "If he performs one good deed, blessed is he for he moves the scale both for himself and for the entire world to the side of merit; if he commits one transgression, woe to him for he moves to the side of guilt himself and the whole world.

The ultimate concept in Greek philosophy is the idea of cosmos, of order; the first teaching in the Bible is the idea of creation. Translated into eternal principles, cosmos means fate, while creation means freedom. The essential meaning of creation is not the idea that the universe was created at a particular moment in time. The essential meaning of creation is, as Maimonides explained, the idea that the universe did not come about by necessity but as a result of freedom.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

So true it is that man proposes and God disposes.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

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