Quotes About Fate

All you need is a second in order to succeed or fail

I live this life as have the fates decreed.

Individuals do not meet by chance. They are necessary in the experiences of others, though they may not always use their opportunities in a spiritual way or manner.

In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.

And then I knew I was one of Life's fools, Whom only death would treat as the equal Of other men

At last you get in – but you hear a step: The ogre, Life, comes into the room, (He was waiting and heard the clang of the spring) To watch you nibble the wondrous cheese, And stare with his burning eyes at you, And scowl and laugh, and mock and curse you, Running up and down in the trap, Until your misery bores him.

But a man can never avenge himself on the monstrous ogre Life.

Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)

Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist?

She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Destiny knows no favorites.

At breakfast-time, however, destiny's preparations were still not quite complete

Ninguno estamos libres de que se abata sobre nosotros la tragedia. Sucede constantemente.

Each man's destiny is personal only insofar as it may happen to resemble what is already in his memory.

La suerte del chico depende de la chica.

No creo que sea el destino el que cruza vidas. Ni que las almas gemelas nazcan de a pares por ahí. La vida es mucho menos sencilla que esa lógica binaria de varitas mágicas que abren los ojos y conectan los corazones. Me gusta pensar que en mi historia con Manuel no hay un dictado del destino sino un gesto de libertad.

Así como la suerte de un chico depende de la chica, la suerte de una madre depende de sus hijas.

Supongo que nadie es capaz de leer, en la borra del presente, las señales de sus futuras tragedias.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Human fates are like planets Like a star that emerges from the dark – and meets another star – shines for a second before disappearing again into the dark – [it is] in this way – in this way a man and a woman meet – glide towards one another are illuminated in love's flames – to then disappear in their separate directions – Only a few meet in a single large blaze – where they both can be fully united

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

Surely it is no accident that the most thorough of tyrannies appeared in Europe's most thoroughly scientific and industrialized nation. If we allow our own country to become as densely populated, overdeveloped and technically unified as modern Germany we may face a similar fate.

The Ides are come, not gone." "Tush! if he is a soothsayer, you are not Caesar. It is your vanity that makes you credulous. Thank Heaven, I do not think myself of such importance that the operations of Nature should be changed in order to frighten me." "But why should the operations of Nature be changed? There may be a deeper philosophy than we dream of, — a philosophy that discovers the secrets of Nature, but does not alter, by penetrating, its courses.