Quotes About Fate

But is it her fault that she was born where she was born???

He has never believed in the Fates. You shape your own life, you see the available futures laid out before you and you choose the most advantageous. He can see now that this is a delusion from which you suffer when the path chosen for you is a profitable one. When the path veers into darker, more difficult terrain you finally understand that what you thought was weakness in others is not weakness at all; it is simply the structure of the world.

There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

In a thousand years, Alessandro said, this incident will be remembered. By then, of course, we will have become angels, devils, or a dragon that breathes fire...but we have given this rock a story that will be passed on. What good is that? It isn't to our advantage, if that's what you mean. However, it's pleasurable to cast a line into the future, no matter how tenuously. You never know, the line may be unbroken all the way to the last judgment.

Marriages are made in heaven which is why they cause so much trouble on earth.

You're always condemned to die. It's just a matter of timing.

win. "Spit in their eye," Evelyn had said, cheerfully but with the tranquil acceptance of her own fate. "Defiance, Catherine, is a gift of God, who is superior to nature. When nature comes to get you, honor God by treating it, as He would, with neither fear nor respect.

I don't want an ambulance. I want you to sit down and shut up. But Signore, an ambulance could take you to a hospital. They could help you. I don't want to die in a hospital. You wouldn't! You'd live! Alessandro closed one eye. I don't want to be alive in a hospital, either.

I suppose that's because you have faith in the judicial system that will try us. Yes. I have faith that we will be found guilty and that we will be shot. Your faith will be rewarded. Why? It hasn't been for the last few years.

A person's name is a fate-conjuring incantation.

No ship can out sail death

Perhaps God dropped them on their heads before they were born.

Yesterday they called it coincidence today its synchronicity tomorrow they`ll call it skill.

To have a child is to give fate a hostage.

John F. Kennedy said something truly terrifying—guaranteed to make every parent's blood run cold: "To have a child is to give fate a hostage.

By this, I mean simply that many times in my life the statistical probabilities of a fatal outcome have been overwhelming thanks to my sins of excess and poor judgment and my inability to say no to anything that sounded as if it might have been fun. By all rights I should have been, at various times: shot to death, stabbed to death, imprisoned for a significant period of time, or at very least, victimized by a casaba-sized tumor.

Todas las noches, durante un par de segundos, y a lo largo de algunos metros, dejaba mi vida en suspenso. Porque según cuál fuera la siguiente canción que sonara en la radio, decidía dar un volantazo en el momento apropiado y seguir disparado hacia casa, a toda velocidad, o enderezar al hijo de puta y precipitarme hacia el barranco y el océano.

Never,' I said. 'One can die but once. Dim died before he was born. That red red krovvy will soon stop.

One can die but once. Dim died before he was born.

My son, my son. When I had my son I would explain all that to him when he was starry enough to like understand. But then I knew he would not understand or would not want to understand at all and would do all the veshches I had done, yes perhaps even killing some poor starry forella surrounded with mewing kots and koshkas, and I would not be able to really stop him. And nor would he be able to stop his own son, brothers. And so it would itty on to like the end of the world...

She also bit off a little toe from the child's left foot to establish a mark of his identity.

He spoke as if procreation of children were an extraordinary fate to overtake anyone, consequence of imprudence, if not worse.

Of this crisis in my life, I remember chiefly a sense of tremendous inevitability, a feeling that fate was settling its own problems, and too much reflection would be out of place.

In the end most things in life—perhaps all things—turn out to be appropriate.