Quotes About Fate

Unfortunately, Sir Gerald, people rarely get what they deserve in this life. Perhaps that is why we have had to invent a heaven. - Miss Blythe, A Precious Jewel

What a dreadful fate it was sometimes to be a woman. To be dependent. To have to sit and wait. To be helpless to order one's own life no matter how carefully and sensibly one tried to plan.

Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.

Then he half raised himself from the ground, threw his arms into the air, and fell forward in his side. He was dead.

one is a punishment and the other is a misfortune

Schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf, Denn zum wiirdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.

No human actions are truly random

The past and the present are within my field of inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.

Well, I was never in luck's way long.

An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.

If he couldn't forgive you for what you'd done, it was clear to me he was never truly your destiny.

that droplet of moisture that had slipped from me like a tear seemed almost to tell the story of my life. It fell through empty space, with no control whatsoever over its destiny; rolled along a path of silk; and somehow came to rest there on the teeth of that dragon. I thought of the petals I'd thrown into the Kamo River shallows outside Mr. Arashino's workshop, imagining they might find their way to the Chairman. It seemed to me that, somehow, perhaps they had.

I learned that year that nothing is so unpredictable as who will survive a war and who won't.

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry? Nobu

Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.

Un equilibrio entre lo bueno y lo malo puede abrir las puertas del destino

El destino no siempre es algo semejante a una fiesta al anochecer. A veces no es más que la lucha por sobrevivir día tras día.

Nada es más triste que el futuro, salvo, quizás, el pasado.

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it?

În zilele noastre, oamenii par s? cread? c? vieÈ›ile lor sunt pe de-a-ntregul construite prin opÈ›iune; dar pe vremea aceea ne consideram buc??i de lut care p?strau pe vecie amprentele celor care le atinseser?.

Ah, it's a dog's life. I only wish during the war they'd a took me in the army. I coulda been dead by now.