Quotes About Fate

Di wrestled with her knitting as if it were Fate, and she were paying off the grudge she owed

This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next.

She died instantly, said Kateri, implying she'd not had time to use a bookmark.

Delphine witnessed awful things occurring to other humans. Worse than that, she was powerless to alter their fate. It would be that way all her life--disasters, falling like chairs all around her, falling so close they disarranged her hair, but not touching her.

Funny how often the Will of God puts a dollar in a pocket, said Dr. Ames.

Jody had watched other classmates, including many in college prep, enter such a life with an impatient fatalism. They got pregnant or arrested or simply dropped out. Some boys, more defiant, filled the junkyards with crushed metal. Crosses garlanded with flowers and keepsakes marked roadsides where they'd died. You could see it coming in the smirking yearbook photos they'd left behind.

He'd felt incredibly lucky they'd found one another, though Serena had already told him their meeting wasn't mere good fortune but inevitability.

Nietzsche once said "that for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts." I didn't believe that, but to willfully defy the quote was to tempt fate—and if to find it true, to know nothing remained but emptiness.

Something would happen or it wouldn't happen, and that was the way of it.

Poor man, in the end, he became so decorative that he died!

I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

IF I'D GOTTEN THE JOB I WANTED at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois. I've often wondered at how lives are shaped by what seem like small and inconsequential events, how an apparently random turn in the road can lead you a long way from where you intended to go—and a long way from wherever you expected to go.

Os homens costumam chamar destino àquilo que lhes acontece quando perdem as forças para lutar.

Ah, esas otras infinitas vidas posibles que se abrían como la cola de un pavo real en torno a nuestra existencia, todas esas modificaciones de nuestro destino que podrían haber tenido lugar con tan sólo variar un pequeño detalle.

Ao ler o livro, podes ter a fraqueza de pensar que aquilo que lês acontecerá de modo irremediável, e com isso, sem te dares conta, tu o estás transformando em realidade. Mas a verdade é que, afora a morte, não existe nada irremediável, exceto a própria covardia. Os homens costumam chamar de destino aquilo que lhes acontece quando perdem as forças para lutar.

The feeling of superiority is a defect that tends to accompany a victim mentality...as if you deserved any merit for being a product of fate.

aunque no sepas el tiempo que te queda, no eres otra cosa que un condenado a muerte? Y, sin embargo, a la mañana siguiente vuelve a estallar la vida con su alegre mentira

la vida siempre acaba mal? Según una tradición gitana, si acudes a un festejo social, a una boda, a un bautizo, no debes desear felicidades, como es habitual, sino «malos principios». Porque, con sabiduría milenaria forjada por unas condiciones de vida difíciles, conocen que la desgracia es inevitable en la existencia; y entonces prefieren desear que la cuota de dolor venga primero, para que así el final sea venturoso.

mundo cambia constantemente y no está regido por la necesidad, sino por el azar. Por el más insufrible, estúpido e inadmisible azar.

Por azar. Por puro y ciego azar, como sucede todo en este mundo.

universo eterno y ordenado resulta mucho más consolador que esa atroz estupidez del ciego azar. Pero

el mundo no se rige por la necesidad, sino por el azar.

Que el mundo no se rige por la necesidad, sino por el azar. Es ésta una sabiduría muy dolorosa, desde luego, porque supone admitir el sinsentido de la existencia. Bajo este punto de vista, todo, desde el sufrimiento hasta la heroicidad, no es más que un ciego capricho del universo, una broma colosal de la materia.

Walking in the garden that had been Eden, Mother Nature met Father God and he doom.