Quotes About Fate

May you be in heaven a full half hour before the Devil knows you're dead

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy.

Do you wonder, ever," said Ester quietly, "whether our own will alters anything? Or whether we're determined to be as we are by the very working of the world?

What occurred did so because I was open to it, and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I had plenty of time to think about this later. I thought about it so much that the events of that evening sometimes ran along under my mood like a secret river, in the way that all buried truths rushed along quietly in some hidden place.

What happens slowly carries in each part the possibility of returning to what came before. In an accident everything is simultaneous, sudden, irreversible. It means this: no going back.

Haberlerin özelli?i bunlar?n hiçbir zaman sizin ba??n?za gelmemesidir.

What occurred did so because I was open to it, and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I had plenty of time to think about this later. I thought about it so much that the events of that evening sometimes ran along under my mood like a secret river, in the way that all buried truths rushed along quietly in some hidden place. P.49

The thing is you keep existing whether you have a plan to do so or not, until you don't exist, and then your plans are meaningless.

However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.

You can not escape death: the end always reach you.

No se puede escapar a la muerte: al final siempre te alcanza.

Why should this girl have crossed Stephen's path, or indeed Stephen hers, if it came to that matter? Was not the world large enough for them both? Perhaps not — or perhaps the event of their meeting had already been written upon tablets of stone by some wise if relentless recording finger.

Everybody has nightmares," she answered. "To paraphrase John Irving, you don't get to pick them. They pick you." "True enough.

El destino es una palabra enorme que desprecié durante mis años de juventud; en cambio, en mis años maduros, la invoco a menudo, he entendido que el destino es el lugar donde está ocurriendo la vida.

What are the chances you'd ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible.

Dheedo says: 'Moments that sail past do not return; fortunes lost will not come back; a word uttered cannot be recalled; the released arrow does not revert to the bow; the escaped soul does not re-enter a dead body.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

We are parlor soldiers. The rugged battle of fate, where strength is born, we shun.

To believe in luck - is skepticism.

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evil they fear.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.