Quotes About Fate

Mi resolución es tan firme como el destino

I felt the greatest eagerness to hear the promised narrative, partly from curiosity and partly from a strong desire to ameliorate his fate if it were in my power. I expressed these feelings in my answer.

Besides, in drawing the picture of my early days, I also record those events which led, by insensible steps, to my after tale of misery, for when I would account to myself for the birth of that passion which afterwards ruled my destiny I find it arise, like a mountain river, from ignoble and almost forgotten sources; but, swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys. Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate;

and I foresaw obscurely that I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings.

There are some beings, whom fate seems to select on whom to pour, in unmeasured portion, the vials of her wrath, and whom she bathes even to the lips in misery.

But by some fatality I did not feel inclined to commence the study of any modern system; and this disinclination was influenced by the following circumstance. My

He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate.

We have lived under the edge of doom, and feel ourselves now facing the long-threatened fate. But hear this Emrys: fate is made by men, not gods.

All that we have is to live what life brings. Die what death comes.

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

Such were the professor's words - rather let me say such the words of the fate - enounced to destroy me. As he went on I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being; chord after chord was sounded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose.

Quién podría estar interesado en el destino de un asesino, sino el verdugo que se iba a ganar el sueldo?

Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed

Los acontecimientos que influyen decisivamente en nuestros destinos a menudo tienen su origen en sucesos triviales

LISTEN TO MY STORY, AND YOU WILL PERCEIVE HOW IRREVOCABLY IT IS DETERMINED.

En tiempos de desgracias debemos luchar contra nuestros destinos y esforzarnos por que estos no nos venzan.

must pursue and destroy the being to whom I gave existence; then my lot on earth will be fulfilled, and I may die.

You may give up your purpose; but mine is assigned to me by heaven, and I dare not.

Despondency rarely visited my heart; a high destiny seemed to bear me on, until I fell, never, never again to rise.

You travelled to seek happiness, but a fatality seems to pursue you.

The cup of life was poisoned forever.

Nuestras almas están formadas de muy extraña manera y nuestras vidas penden sólo de leves lazos, cuya rotura, puede arrojarlas a la prosperidad o a la ruina.

Na verdade, quando busco as origens da minha obsessão, que veio depois a reger o meu destino, descubro que ela brotou, como um rio na montanha, de um fio de água remoto e quase esquecido, que foi-se avolumando pouco a pouco, até converter-se na torrente que arrastou em seu curso todas as minhas esperanças e alegrias.