Quotes About Fate

can easily see that being in the right place (physical, educational, societal, or otherwise) at the right time can influence our destinies as much as anything else.

we can easily see that being in the right place (physical, educational, societal, or otherwise) at the right time can influence our destinies as much as anything else.

being in the right place (physical, educational, societal, or otherwise) at the right time can influence our destinies as much as anything else. Now,

being in the right place (physical, educational, societal, or otherwise) at the right time can influence our destinies as much as anything else.

the right time can influence our destinies as much as anything else.

He steepled his fingers in monkish solemnity. "You cannot hide from Fate, my son." Sarah grunted. "People don't have fates." "No: fates have people," Jet said, suddenly serious.

I rose and moved towards him. You would have done the same yourself. It is an ancient matter. Something propels you towards sudden grief, or perhaps also sometimes repels. You move away. I moved towards it, I couldn't help it.

If it had been a great necessity, if it had been contingents of an army meeting to overwhelm the enemy by stealth, it might not have worked out so neatly. But fate it would seem is a perfect strategist and will work miracles of timing to assist our destruction.

My fate, my fate as woeful as my father's, my ridiculous, heartless, funny fate.

who might have been a preacher had she not been cloven

Those that we love, those essential beings, are removed from us at the will of the Almighty, or the devils that usurp them.

A child is never the author of his own history. I suppose this is well known.

But you must live your own life eventually. You have one chance only.

And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.

Jemand anderes mischt die Karten, mit denen wir spielen, und sooft wir darüber verzweifeln, so dankbar sind wir letzten Endes über die Gnade des Systems. Denn würden wir den Weg des Lebens weitergehen, wenn wir die Zukunft sehen könnten?

Weißt du, mein Vater hat mir immer gesagt, verlieben geschieht automatisch. Gegen dieses plötzliche, alles ausfüllende Gefühl, das einen wie ein Blitz ereilt, ist man machtlos. ›Verlieben ist Zufall‹, sagte er immer. Aber Liebe …« Nele machte eine kurze Pause, in der die letzte Leuchte im Park ansprang und die Natur in ein schwefelgelbes Licht tauchte. »Liebe ist eine Entscheidung.

El resto de nosotros, es decir, los seres anónimos, parecemos ser en el mejor de los casos objetos de la historia sin saberlo, peones de una partida de ajedrez que se desplazan hacia delante, se dejan en su sitio, se sacrifican o son abatidos y cuya vida, si es que la tienen, transcurre en un mundo totalmente distinto, sin la más mínima relación con lo que les sucede sobre el tablero de ajedrez que ocupan.

If the past can't be changed, and the future's already written; what's the point in living?

Må andra lyssna till tal om blommor och solsken, men för mig väljer jag de mörka nätterna, fulla av syner och äventyr, för mig de hårda ödena, för mig förvildade hjärtans sorguppfyllda lidelser.

Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?

Mortality is a cause for humility, she said to me. None of us knows when he might be taken, as your blessed father was taken. Death, like birth, comes to us all, regardless of rank or station in life.

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Luck never made a man wise.

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.