Quotes About Fate

Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.

You can't leave me here to hope, when in reality you've already decided everything.

Il cane se ne era andato attraverso uno strappo nella rete degli eventi. Ne lasciamo tanti, lacerazioni dell'incuria quando mettiamo insieme causa ed effetto. L'essenziale è che la corda, l'intreccio che ora mi reggeva, tenesse.

Acaso todo en ella era fruto del desorden de las ocasiones?

some people are always saved and some perish.

Blijft het feit dat ik mijn hand opstak en zei dat het menselijke lot zo duidelijk aan de blinde razernij van het toeval was blootgesteld dat jezelf aan een God toevertrouwen hetzelfde was als plaatjes verzamelen terwijl de stad brandt in het hellevuur.

le moindre choix a son histoire, et beaucoup d'événements de notre existence restent tapis dans un coin en attendant le moment de surgir, et ce moment finit par arriver.

toda escolha tem sua história, muitos momentos de nossa vida estão espremidos num canto só esperando uma brecha, e no final essa brecha aparece.

I began to weep with loneliness. What was I, who was I? I felt pretty again, my pimples were gone, the sun and the sea had made me slimmer, and yet the person I liked and whom I wished to be liked by showed no interest in me. What signs did I carry, what fate?

La mia vita mi spinge a immaginarmi come sarebbe stata la sua se le fosse toccato ciò che è toccato a me, che uso avrebbe fatto della mia fortuna. E

Dios ciega al que quiere perder.

Qué triste destino el mío encontrarte en mi camino cuando los años blanquean mis barbas de peregrino!

n?u m?t ng??i có s? m?nh thì ?ó là ?àn ông, còn n?u m?t ng??i ch?u s? m?nh thì ?ó là ?àn bà.

El mundo se marcha sin muchas lamentaciones. Luego vas tú.

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

That way the story is put on the same footing as life, because a story is a life that didn't happen, and a life is a story that didn't get told.

Det var slutet för den unge, så gick Kullervo ur tiden, denne olycksfödde yngling, för att aldrig återkomma. /.../ Eftervärld, låt aldrig barnet uppfostras av onda viljor, vyssjas av förvända mänskor, vaggas fel av obekanta. Den som en gång fostrats galet, vyssjas bakvänt, vaggas illa, han blir aldrig som han borde,

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

as for unhappy families, star-crossed lovers, and exiled heroes, they are simply universal.

I had often flipped through a calendar wondering on which of the 366 days (counting February 29) I would die, but it had never once occurred to me to wonder whether I had already met the first person I would have sex with.

It is difficult to reconcile oneself to the view that a single life determines our lot. We seem to come toward the end of our life just when we begin to get some insight.

But, in a sense, nothing in life is planned—or everything is—because in the dance every step is ultimately the corollary of the step before; the consequence of being the kind of person one chances to be.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

There are things that are not yet true today, perhaps we dare not find them true, but tomorrow they may be. So every man whose fate is to go his individual way must proceed with hopefulness and watchfulness, ever conscious of his loneliness and its dangers