Quotes About Fate

E' il Dio degli amori non corrisposti, quello che si diverte a combinare in infiniti incontri sbagliati tutte le possibili infelicità e le possibili disperazioni.

The fate of all things cherished and expensive, to be lost at hazard, and well before their time

Meant to be allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believing that we had ownership, that we could have done something to change the outcome. It's lazier than The Clapper.

Samo zato što mu je sudbina pokazala vodu, nije zna?ilo da je mora piti.

Narrow-eyed, Vane watched her go, watched her hips sway as she glided along. He remained in the archway until she reached her door. He heard it shut behind her. Slowly, very slowly, his features eased, then a Cynster smile tugged at his lips. If he couldn't escape fate, then, 'ipso facto,' neither could she. Which meant she would be his. The prospect grew more alluring by the minute.

Human beings like us may never have evolved before and may never evolve again in this or any other universe. As far as anyone knows, we are alone in an inconceivably vast cosmos that has no interest at all in our fate. I do not believe that I existed in any meaningful sense before my birth or will exist again after my death either here on earth or in a heaven, a hell, or any other realm.

To embrace the contingency of one's life is to embrace one's fate as an ephemeral but sentient being. As Nietzsche claimed, one can come to love that fate. But to do so one must first embrace it, though one instinctively recoils at such a prospect.

It's so beautiful. Spinner stared at the eagle wings of the Nebula, drinking in its pale colors. Louise, I'm so lucky to be here, to see this. Uvarov might have sent someone else through the Locks, that first time; not me and Arrow Maker. You might have asked someone else to learn to run your nightfighter for you - and not me. Louise, I might have missed this. I might have died without seeing it - without ever knowing it existed.

Life is a struggle, and it is the struggle that gives it meaning. The only thing to do was to give one's all, and leave the consequences to fate.7

We can't choose where we come from,but we can choose where we go from there.

I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.

Everyone gets an ending. Whether or not it's happy is up to them.

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

Everyone gets an ending. Whether or not it's happy is up to them.

No podemos elegir de donde venimos pero si hacia donde vamos

No podemos elegir de dónde venimos, pero sí hacia dónde vamos

Sin el, tu mundo está condenado

We all get an ending. Whether or not it's happy is up to us.

Verrazzano must have been turning in his grave. (Except that he didn't have one because he'd been eaten.)

The fate of our country is now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register at McDonald's.

We are all tossed on the stormy seas of fate, at the mercy of men and forces beyond our power to comprehend, control or deflect. Sometimes we need an illusion.

There is no such thing as luck. If you think you're lucky and that'll carry you through, you're living on borrowed time.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.