Quotes About Fate

The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.

Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly.

Scegli un libro. Ma forse lui ha scelto te.

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

Gods are not granted the power of choice; it is the price and the wonder of their godhead.

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

Of course, few conquered peoples have ever escaped this fate. The only people who have escaped Muslim dhimmitude have been those who were successful in resisting Islamic jihad: the Christians of Europe and the Hindus of India. Others were not so fortunate.

We carry nemesis inside us.

One insight was that the ordinary physical world through which one shuffled heedless and half-assed toward nonentity was capable of composing itself, at any time and without notice, into a massive instrument of agonizing death.

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag. - The Greatness of Saturn

I know it's hard. It's one of the hardest things there is, but you know we can't make people love us. It happens, or it doesn't.

Sad it is, the fate of kings.

Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa.

I hated to see the life go out of a warm, living creature and I declined to be present. Picking up a book at random, I sat down in the studio to read. Alas! I had found The King in Yellow.

Robert W. Chambers

Me verá una doncella, una niña alta, pálida y concentrada, que por capricho maneje su Rolls-Royce. Paseará tristemente. De pronto me mira y comprende que yo seré el único amor de toda la vida, y esa mirada que era un ultraje para todos los desdichados, se posará en mí, cubiertos los ojos de lágrimas. El ensueño se desenroscaba sobre

Life left us all where we were meant to be or where it was convenient to leave us and then forgot us, which is as it should be.

Supe entonces, con humildad, con perplejidad, en un arranque de mexicanidad absoluta, que estábamos gobernados por el azar y que en esa tormenta todos nos ahogaríamos, y supe que sólo los más astutos, no yo ciertamente, iban a mantenerse a flote un poco más de tiempo.

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.

No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the police, that she'd been taking a walk and had come upon death purely by chance.

Ay, las casualidades -dijo Quim respirando a pleno pulmón, como el titán de la calle Revillagigedo-, valen verga las casualidades. A la hora de la verdad todo esta escrito. A eso los pinches griegos lo llamaban destino

Toda vida, le dijo esa noche Epifanio a Lalo Cura, por más feliz que sea, acaba siempre en dolor y sufrimiento. Depende, dijo Lalo Cura. ¿Depende de qué, buey? De muchas cosas, dijo Lalo Cura. Si te pegan un balazo en la nuca, por ejemplo, y el pinche asesino se acerca sin que lo escuches, te vas al otro mundo sin dolor y sin sufrimiento. Pinche escuincle, dijo Epifanio. ¿A ti han pegado muchos tiros en la nuca?

This is where the story should end, but life is not as kind as literature.