Quotes About Fate

Ognuno di noi pensa di avere molte strade e di potere scegliere da sé. Ma forse sarebbe stato più esatto dire che sogna il momento di scegliere. Anche per me è stato così. Ma ora lo so. Lo so con tanta chiarezza da poterlo mettere in parole. La strada è sempre decisa, non però in senso fatalistico. Sono il nostro continuo respirare, gli sguardi, i giorni che si succedono a deciderla naturalmente.

Strahlt ein Leuchtturm allzu hell, verwirrt er die vorüberfahrenden Schiffe und zieht die wunderlichsten Schicksale an.(...) Ich glaube es gibt eine bestimmte Art von Anziehungskraft, deren Daseinsenergie unermüdlich nach Veränderung verlangt.

In retrospect, I realise 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.

Tu e io non abbiamo mica la fortuna contro, no? Siamo solo inghiottiti da questa atmosfera, non credi? Adesso è impossibile. Ma è solo adesso, che è impossibile, vero?

Only ceremony and the love of fate distinguish us from the beasts.

Tenía la idea de que, si ejercías un control mental y te decías muy seria: «No tendré hijos», seguramente no vendrían.

When I fall in love, it will be for always. Nothing will change that. No one will walk out. We will stay together forever, and when death finally separates us we will have the memories that we shared. He will be that kind of person. I will know him instantly when I finally meet him. And he will love me forever.

meant to be." Nancy took one

The life we plan isn't always the life we get, but it's usually the life we were meant to lead.

The future is not set; there is no fate but what we make for ourselves.

Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky.

It is the same God, no? Le bon Dieu can find me when He wants me, I am sure.

Well, some books are destined never to be read,' said Mervyn. 'Its's the natural order of things.' Like women who are destined never to marry, though Ianthe.

It's as though we loved our past, but our past didn't love us. So we go on strike and pretend we don't care, as if to punish fate for being unkind. Fate never cares, of course, so we only hurt ourselves.

But maybe, someday, I will know you again.

Ivo had grown more and more like one of those characters in his books who are always groaning about their miserable fate in helplessly loving someone unworthy of their love. Maugham never says much about what that's like for the poor old unworthy object. I could have told him. It's not exactly uplifting for the self-image.

The hands of the watch stood at five past eight. The only kind of death that can be accurately predicted to the minute had taken place, the death that takes its victim, … feet foremost through the floor, Into an empty space. 2 THREE TIMES IN THE past thirty-five years I had seen her name in print.

To say that someone is tranquil doesn't, after all, imply contentment, only perhaps a peaceful acceptance of or yielding to an unhappy fate.

Her whole life would have been different. Her whole life had hung on whether or not a man walked down a garden path and slipped on ice. If he hadn't slipped, she would have married someone else, lived in different places, had different children, perhaps even been happy. It was a dreadful thought.

the irony of man's fate reflected in his image: that all men, from beggar to emperor, from harlot to queen, from ragged clerk to Pope, must come to this. No matter what their poverty or power in life, all is vanity, equalized by death.

The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.

Fate represents the fulfillment of man's expectations of himself.

William III died childless in 1702, in a fall when his horse stumbled over a molehill, an obstacle that seems as if it should have some philosophical significance but, as far as can be seen, does not.

Fate as a character in legend represents the fulfillment of man's expectations of himself.