Quotes About Fate

Y bien, ¿le gustaría el corredor de la muerte? Se lo merecía, decidió Jeffers. Estupidez en Primer Grado.

El mayor lujo de nuestra existencia, por miserable que sea, es que no sabemos los días que nos han tocado en suerte»

sus probabilidades de morir joven eran muy superiores a sus probabilidades de enamorarse, pero curiosamente estaba a gusto con esa situación.

It is, he thought, the greatest luxury of our existence, no matter how miserable, that we don't know our allotted span of days.

El mayor lujo de nuestra existencia, por miserable que sea, es que no sabemos los días que nos han tocado en suerte

La vida no es más que eso, indicó el viejo analista meneando la cabeza. Un juego tras otro . Y la muerte es el mayor juego de todos.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!

It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.

Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.

Of all the different ways we reassure ourselves, the least comforting is this: it's already too late.

But there is one thing that I've learned about luck. It rears its head as an opportunity, not a gift, and what seems to separate the lucky from the unlucky is the willingness to take Lady Luck for a ride.

To give your life is one thing; to do it for a gesture is another; but to do it for a gesture you know is meaningless is a desolate trick of fate.

Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.

Remember Edouardo? Remember what happened to him when he tried to—" "Edouardo. Edouardo was a fool." "Yes, but the way he died …" "It does not matter, how you die." "But those cuts. What could have done it?" "It does not matter," the other man insisted. He nodded to the

Death comes to all of us in the end.

Troy wrapped his hand around the gun and asked himself why God had so ordered the world as

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

Julius Caesar: "There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; / Omitted, all the voyage of their life / Is bound in shallows and in miseries." He thought

The death of Baldr is one of the most important moments in the mythology.

In Gylfaginning Snorri uses and expands on these sources, adding, among other things, that the einherjar are "all those men who have fallen in battle since the beginning of the world." He also sends the einherjar out against the forces of chaos at the last battle but gives no details of their fights and fates.

Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where — at least in the short run — the important thing is not what happens but what people think happens.

Let me stand to the main chance.