Quotes About Fate

To exempt themselves from action, oppressed peoples entrust themselves to "fate," a negative salvation as well as a means of interpreting events: a philosophy of history for daily use, a determinist vision on an effective basis, a metaphysic of circumstance . . .

Trebuie s? privim spre viitor, chiar dac? viitorul e moartea.

He who chooses time is engulfed by it and buries his genius therein.

Whatever they do and wherever they go, their mission is to keep watch; this is the command of their immemorial status as aliens. A solution to their fate does not exist.

Una poesía digna de ese nombre comienza por la experiencia de la fatalidad. Sólo los malos poetas son libres.

The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.

La imagen de la vida, en una comedia de marionetas; el destino figurado por el juego..., esto es el Limbo.

Non siamo più ai tempi dei Pizarro, degli Almagro, dei Cortez, i grandi conquistatori degli imperi americani. Che disgrazia non essere nati due o trecento anni fa! Io e Sandokan avremmo forse conquistata anche l'Africa intera.

A single run of luck has made the fortune of many a charm and many idols.

Làm gì có vi?c s? m?nh ?ã ??nh s?n, n?u th? ta c? tiêu c?c, b?t ??ng m?c cho s? ph?n run r?i hay sao?

It is a matter of embracing one's only life, even though this life so often seems to be, merely, one's doom. And it is, in a way, though not "merely." But to refuse the doom of one's only life is to be trapped outside all nourishment.

All women had been cursed from the cradle; all, in one fashion or another, being given the same cruel destiny, born to suffer the weight of men.

Oedipus did not remember the thongs that bound his feet; nevertheless the marks they left testified to that doom toward which his feet were leading him.

History, again, tells us of successive civilizations which have been born, have for a space thriven exceedingly, and have then miserably perished.

Some great crisis in its fate may stamp upon a race marks which neither lapse of time nor change of circumstance seem able wholly to efface; and empires may rise from barbarism to civilization and sink again from civilization into barbarism, within periods so brief that we may take it as certain, whatever be our opinion as to the transmission of acquired faculties, that no hereditary influence has had time to operate.

Really, his self-sufficiency is too much. I can't stand that Jupiter Olympian air of his--the only mythological character exempt, they say, from ill-luck.

The fate of the home depends on the first night.

The woman who allows herself to be found out deserves her fate.

Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.

In retrospect I realise that fate was a ladder on which, at the time, I could not afford to miss a single rung.

In retrospect I realize that fate was a ladder on which, at the time, I could not afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one scene would have meant never making it to the top, although it would have been by far the easier choice. What motivated me was probably that little light still left in my half-dead heart, glittering in the darkness. Yet without it, perhaps, I might have slept better.

I became part of the air that surrounded Sui, and breathed her incomprehensible sadness. I think that part of those feelings live within my soul. Burdened by bad karma, and a soul that beckoned such unfortunate fate, Sui used all the resources she had to make her way through love. I witnessed that.

Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

I was a firm believer in the idea that coincidences always came along at the right time. I felt there was some kind of reason for the way things happened as they did, like bubbles from my subconscious mind rising to the surface.