Quotes About Fate

The path not taken, was not taken. No point wondering.

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

But the look on his face was so strange that I hadn't the heart to take his story away from him. He believed it, see. He believed the old gods were on Arthur's side just as he believed that winter would follow autumn and the sun would rise tomorrow. And I thought that maybe that believing would make him strong and brave and lucky when the fighting came, and maybe without it he'd be killed, or turn and run away, which was worse than being killed. So I kept quiet.

Nobody wants trouble,' said Chandni. 'Trouble just find us.

But who is set up for the impossible that is going to happen? Who is set up for tragedy and the incomprehensibility of suffering? Nobody. The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

If we are honest with ourselves we have to admit that unless we rid ourselves of our nuclear arsenals a holocaust not only might occur but will occur," wrote Jonathan Schell in his influential book The Fate of the Earth, "if not today, then tomorrow; if not this year, then the next.

I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.

The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.

I sense the ambition and ease of a generation that has grown up on a much smaller planet. Those who consider travel an ordinary adventure rather than a grand expedition, for whom a quiet life is considered a slow death. I see this child of the world and can't help but think how fate probably would have played out differently had his father been driven by the same curiosity. If he had not lived in another day. If he had known how to free himself.

Without the war, without this magnificent summer, this absence of men, would we ever have met?

Elle dit elle-même qu'elle ne s'en souvient pas, et que cela de toute façon ne l'a pas empêchée de naître et ne l'empêchera pas de mourir.

In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.

Parfois les rêves se réalisent, surtout dans les histoires et surtout dans la vie.

On the day the gods chose for his destruction, Peter Hale ate his breakfast on the terrace of his condominium.

Algunas personas simplemente no están destinadas a estar en esté mundo. Es demasiado para ellos.

Extraño? No lo creo. Las coincidencias son los pequeños maravillosos misterios de la vida. No dudes de una coincidencia. Sólo disfrútala.

I suppose we run into accidents and coincidences every day. What matters are the choices we make. If we let an important chance slip by without even trying, then what do we have?

You are the spell the universe has cast.

I «destinati a essere morti» non hanno certo gioventù splendenti: ed ecco che essi ti insegnano a non splendere. E tu splendi, invece, Gennariello.

C'era un futuro per loro? Sarebbe stato capace di difendere questo amore? Non sarebbero morti entrambi? Non era tutto inutile?

Saya sudah menunjukkan secara panjang lebar dalam La distinction di mana cinta itu juga bisa dideskripsikan sebagai bentuk dari amor fati, bahwa mencintai sampai titik tertentu selalu berarti mencintai seseorang sebagai cara lain untuk memenuhi takdir sosialnya sendiri.