Quotes About Fate

Hiçbir ÅŸey imkans?z deÄŸildir… Baz? ÅŸeylerin olma olas?l??? daha düÅŸüktür sadece.

Ya??yorlar. Ac? çekiyorlar. Ölüyorlar.

American gang members talk about themselves, their lives, their ambitions, their idea of fate, the role of violence and revenge, in ways that are strangely like the Greeks in the Iliad.

Achilles is fixed into rage, into the need to fulfill his fate, fixed into having to revenge the death of his friend Patroclus.

Told you, said Mick. Things comin' together. We set off lookin' for the Utz kids an' find a tree full o' everybody. That's magic, too. It's like a story. Same thing. The universe don't like plot. Story is magic's way o' telling the universe to sod off. That's good then, right? said Scott. After this episode with Emily, he was ready for some optimism. Magic wants us all to live happily ever after. Not necessarily, Mick answered. Magic likes a good tragedy, too.

The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.

Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren't looking for it and didn't plan on it.

But this is too strange. In this sea of coincidences, I am beginning to understand that we don't control our destinies; they are mapped out for us as surely as we are born.

This was always going to happen. She's been dead since the beginning.

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out; and that is far the most unhappy thing of all. -Cassandra

By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.

You are young and young your rule and you think that the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored.

Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man fortunate.

Give me an answer which is plain to understand.

Zeus, whose will has marked for man The sole way where wisdom lies; Ordered one eternal plan: Man must suffer to be wise. Head-winds heavy with past ill Stray his course and cloud his heart: Sorrow takes the blind soul's part - Man grows wise against his will. For powers who rule from thrones above By ruthlessness commend their love.

Zeus'tan baÅŸkas? özgür deÄŸildir.

The sleeping brain has eyes that give us light; we can never see our destiny by day.

But you cannot speak of any glory for happenings that are at once evil and held in dishonor.

Temos de suportar com o coração impávido a sorte que nos é imposta e admitir a impossibilidade de fazermos frente à força irresistível da fatalidade.

No mortal can complete his life unharmed and unpunished throughout--ah ah! Some troubles are here now, some will come later. Chorus, Aeschylus' Eumenides from the Oresteia

Man shall learn from man's lot.

What mortal else who hears shall claim he was born immune to the demon of harm?

If libations were proper to pour above the slain, this man deserved, more than deserved, such sacrament. He filled our cup with evil things unspeakable and now himself come home has drunk it to the dregs.

Yet the insidious guile of god—what mortal man can escape it? Who with agile foot can lightly overleap and escape its toils?