Quotes About Fate

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

If I used justice, you'd all be dead. The karma that you throw at me when you don't like me - if I just let it come back, you'd all be destroyed in no time.

This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate?

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.

When the two that share destiny part and reunite, beyond the frame of time, the ceased clock will awake and start to tick once again.

Each hour comes with some little faggot of God's will fastened upon its back.

Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!

You see, we are all dying. It's only a matter of time. Some of us just die sooner than others.

There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.

I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else's mirror, Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. Already I knew the list of crimes That I was destined to commit.

But Fate was in an impish mood that night.

Out lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

Karma is a boomerang and a bitch.

All you can do is keep waiting for your time. There is no use protesting. If you have cruel owners, it's your bad luck. I wish I could die now. Only that can put an end to all my miseries.

But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tinder of our wishes; then, they instantly ignite, and the flame of hope is kindled in a moment.

the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tinder of our wishes; then, they instantly ignite, and the flame of hope is kindled in a moment.

But was there any harm in wishing that, among the many thousands whose souls would certainly be required of them before the year was over, this wretched mortal might be one? I thought not; and therefore I wished with all my heart that it might please Heaven to remove him to a better world, or if that might not be, still, to take him out of this...

Pero nuestros deseos son como la yesca: el pedernal y el acero de las circunstancias están continuamente lanzando chispas, que se desvanecen inmediatamente, a menos que caigan por casualidad sobre la yesca de nuestros deseos; luego, instantáneamente se encienden, y la llama de la esperanza se enciende en un momento.

There's always a chance of death; and it is always well to live with such a chance in view.

There's always a chance of death; and it is always well to live with such a chance in view.' 'Yes

She should have died on that day. Perhaps, in a way, she had.

I have now reached the stage that I don't care much whether I live or die. The world will still keep on turning without me; what is going to happen, will happen, and anyway it's no good to resist.