Quotes About Fate

Thinking about it like that made it more bearable, that we go back to God when we've had our turn, that some of us roll the dice less than we'd like, but that we're the ones who are rolling them.

Às vezes acho que uma tragédia vive à espreita de todo mundo; por isso, as pessoas que vão comprar leite na esquina ou que cutucam o nariz enquanto aguardam o sinal abrir estão a apenas alguns minutos de um desastre. Na vida de todos, não importa quão comum seja, existe um momento que se tornará extraordinário — um único embate após o qual tudo o que realmente é importante vai acontecer.

You could roll the same side over and over again, the laws of the universe intact and unchanging with each turn. It's only when you consider the past that the odds change. That things become less and less likely." -Lane-

But second chances aren't forever. And even miracles have an expiration date.

It's so strange how the moment of your birth is this fixed point in time, but the hour of your death is always changing based on what you eat for dinner, or where you cross the street, or who you trust when you're alone in the dark woods. But I like to think of all those little moments that add up to the final one, because it meant that my death would be my own, the result of my life, and not just something that happened to me.

the life you plan isn't the life that happens to you.

And the concept of an extraordinary means of preserving life, or a risky, optional treatment that doctors don't recommend, is one I studied in graduate school and fascinates me to this day. It's the idea that the patient ultimately controls their own fate, and that is the greatest freedom you can have within a system that sees patients as their diagnosis rather than as people

Y lo malo de tratar de burlar a la muerte es que siempre tienes las de perder.

We're so good together, and it's a tragedy in its own right to throw that away because of something neither of us did. Because the way I figure it, everyone gets a tragedy. And all things considered, I'm glad that car accident was mine. Otherwise I wouldn't be applying to East Coast colleges, or on the debate team, or any of those things, because I wouldn't have met you.

I still think that everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a singular tragic encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. That moment is the catalyst- the first step in the equation. But knowing the first step will get you nowhere- it's what comes after that determines the result.

we're two sides of the same tragic coin, its like we were tied together before we even met

You really know how to pick 'em, don't you?" Toby joked. "I think I'm cursed.

SOMETIMES I THINK that everyone has a tragedy waiting for them, that the people buying milk in their pajamas or picking their noses at stoplights could be only moments away from disaster.

That everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a moment when it will become extraordinary—a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen.

La vida es como un juego de cartas. La mano que se te reparte es el determinismo; la forma en que juegas es el libre albedrío." Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will." Jawaharlal Nehru

and as a result shared the fate of Syracuse.

as witness the story of Oedipus, hounded by the gods for marrying his mother, even in ignorance.

The fate of Melos was by no means the only atrocity recorded by Thucydides

Asino tu nascesti, ad asino morrai. [An ass you were born; an ass you will die.]

If the odds are 50/50, I don't stand a chance!

It is our fate to give ourselves most lavishly to those who'd rather not be burdened with the gift

El destino es siempre desmedido: castiga un instante de distracción, el azar de tomar a la izquierda y no a la derecha, a veces con la muerte. BORGES citado por Bioy

La pregunta que nos asalta es: ¿sólo podemos escapar del determinismo gracias al azar de una vida sin sentido?