Quotes About Fate

You're going to die of death. Your death has already begun.

Il segreto più profondo di Olimpia è racchiuso in quest'unica nota cristallina: lottare è un gioco, vivere è un gioco, morire è un gioco; profitti e perdite non sono che distinzioni passeggere, ma il gioco pretende tutte le nostre forze, e la sorte accetta, come posta, unicamente i nostri cuori.

L'homme est une entreprise qui a contre elle le temps, la nécessité, la fortune, et l'imbécile et toujours croissante primauté du nombre, dit plus posément le philosophe. Les hommes tueront l'homme. (La visite du chanoine)

Se, per miracolo, qualche secolo venisse aggiunto ai pochi giorni che mi restano, rifarei le stesse cose, persino gli stessi errori, frequenterei gli stessi Olimpi e i medesimi Inferi.

On peut dire que tout est prédestiné, que tout est un arrangement extrêmement savant dont nous ne voyons qu'une toute petite partie. On peut dire aussi que tout est chaos, et je me heurterai à ce dilemme jusqu'au bout. (p. 166)

One is always punished out of season.

Natura deficit, fortuna mutatur, deus omnia cernit. La naturaleza nos traiciona, la fortuna cambia, un dios mira las cosas desde lo alto.

Het landschap van mijn leven lijkt, net als bergachtige streken, te bestaan uit verschillende lukraak opeengestapelde materialen. (...) Hier en daar komen de granietblokken van het onvermijdelijke aan de oppervlakte; overal het gruis van het toeval. Ik span me in om mijn levensloop na te gaan teneinde er een plan in te vinden, er een lood- of een goudader in te volgen of de stroom van een ondergrondse rivier, maar dat volkomen kunstmatige plan is niets dan gezichtsbedrog van de herinnering.

Maar de menselijke geest accepteert niet graag dat hij afhankelijk is van het toeval, dat hij slechts het voorbijgaande product is van kansen waarover geen enkele god zeggenschap heeft, hijzelf zeker niet.

Érico, porém, era daqueles que preferem receber seu destino de fora, fosse por orgulho, pois achava belo que o próprio céu se ocupasse de sua sorte, fosse por indolência, para não ter de responder nem pelo bem nem pelo mal que trazia em si.

In vain did Zeno remind him that the stars, though they influence our destinies, do not determine them; and that our lives are regulated by the heart, that fiery star palpitating in the dark of our bodies, suspended there in its cage of flesh and bone, as strong and mysterious as the stars above, and obeying laws more complicated than the laws which we ourselves make.

I never said becoming the slayer would be a field trip to a Justin Bieber concert.

I don't want to be dead. I'm curious about how things will turn out. This is good, right?

And maybe I was wasting time trying to make sense of things: sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen.

sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It

I'd always felt that there was only a finite amount of good fortune in the universe to go around.

Goodness and happiness were gone for ever and nothing could be retrieved. This was going to end; and end terribly. The last three years had been spent trying to dodge their fate, but it was rushing up to meet them.

paths would have already crossed

if the train doesn't stop at your station, it's not your train.

It is useless for you to consider the reason of this, or the meaning of that. Take things as they come in due order: one circumstance explains the other, and everything is always for the best.

the swinging pendulum of HUMAN WILL, which decides our fate. God does not choose for us, or compel our love — we are free to fashion out our own futures; but in making our final choice we cannot afford to waste one moment of our precious, unreturning time. MARIE CORELLI.

If you thought dead was just dead, then you wouldn't have to worry about any of this.

I suspect Scottishness is another name for predestination. It explains everything, more or less.

Il arrive qu'on fasse des pieds et des mains pour atteindre un objectif, mais il vous échappe parce que les lois cosmiques suivent une autre voie.