Quotes About Fate

A Pakistani exchange student's maternal American host "managed to summon the transforming question of her culture, built on the revolutionary idea that people are the sovereign, the boss, captains of their own fate. She said, simply, "But what do YOU think?

None of us is responsible for the wonderful people we don't meet; we're only lucky when we do meet them.

Life goes on, along with time, which can bring your behavior, let your luck be good

La vida es una maldita enfermedad que a todos nos acaba matando.

Caesar's ghost on the eve of the Battle of Philippi. We ignore them at our peril; we listen to them at the risk of our sanity. A French poet said, by the end of life, we all contain libraries and graveyards. It seemed to have happened to me already, my familiarity with both. I knew I had to get help with this now,

Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180).

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. It gave him the sensation that he was tottering on the tip of a flagpole. He was poised on circumstance.

It was the kind of moment, I see now, that could have gone several ways. She could have laughed, she could have cried, she could have reached for him. Or he could have got down on his knees and pretended to have the heart attack that later killed him. She would have been jolted from her shock. Helped him. We would have cleared up the mess, made sandwiches for ourselves, and things would have gone on. If we'd sat down together that night, I do believe things would have gone on.

In fact, there is no question that a number of people of all ages lost their lives on account of this house.

No matter what they died to me, it would still be a 'life sentence' to be a white woman in the rong skin. sentenced to be white was my fate.

Delphine witnessed awful things occurring yo 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.

Most people don't die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates.

Lie, copulate, and die.

Love...is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite...

Nothing can be explained. The world only knows how to do one thing, to roll over and kill you

On décore à présent aussi bien les chiottes que les abattoirs et le Mont-de-Piété aussi, tout cela pour vous amuser, vous distraire, vous faire sortir de votre Destinée.

Our trouble isn't lack of perseverance, it's that we're not on the right road that leads to an easy death. Going

It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

At the basis of the whole modern view of the world lies the illusion that the so-called laws of nature are the explanations of natural phenomena. So people stop short at natural laws as at something unassailable, as did the ancients at God and Fate. And they both are right and wrong. But the ancients were clearer, in so far as they recognized one clear conclusion, whereas in the modern system it should appear as though everything were explained.

Fate, fortune, chance: all snares of life. You want to be, eh? There's this catch: in abstract, you cannot just be. The being must be trapped in a form, and for some time it has to stay in it, here or there, this way or that. And everything, as long as it lasts, bears the penalty of its form, the penalty of being this way and no longer being able to be otherwise.

You don't know what it means to live the life that you could have lived, if an event over which you have no control, an unforeseeable circumstance, had not distracted and diverted you, and at times crushed you, as has happened to me.

because he who has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death

Ti compiango! Ma tu devi far la tua parte, com'io la mia. Il giuoco è questo. L'ha capito finanche lei! Ciascuno la sua, fino all'ultimo; e stai pur sicuro che dal mio perno io non mi muovo, avvenga che può. Mi vedo e vi vedo giocare, e mi diverto. Basta.