Quotes About Fate

We came from a mystery and it's to a mystery we go.

The ring rolled down the gutter and disappeared into a sewer grate, and there it remained for a long, long time. But not forever. In Derry, things that disappear into the sewer system have a way – an often unpleasant one – of turning up.

El dinero compra muchas cosas, pero no puede parar el rayo.

It conjured up an image of fate, not blind at all but equipped with sentient 20/20 vision and intent on grinding helpless mortals between the great millstones of the universe to make some unknown bread.

Muslim leaders ordered it cut to pieces to show their contempt for worldly wealth. They destroyed countless treasures, including the entire royal library. In an account of this conquest written by the tenth-century Persian poet Ferdowsi, a general laments: "Curse this world, curse this time, curse this fate / That uncivilized Arabs have come to force me to be Muslim.

Accident in history is rife; unintended consequences and perverse outcomes are the rule.

You wonder about that sometimes, you wonder what happens when you die in your sleep. Do you carry on dreaming, does the moment of death expand to fill the void so that the dream goes on forever, or does it just fade to black? And if it goes on forever, does it matter whether the dream was a pleasant one or a nightmare? Would one be heaven and the other hell?

Mortal lives are not stones. They are not seas. For impermanence to judge itself by the standards of permanence is folly. Or it is arrogance. Life merely is what it is, neither more nor less. To deem it less because it is not more is to heed the counsels of the Despiser.

In your present state, Chosen, Desecration lies ahead of you. It does not crowd at your back.

All paths lead to death, she said when she found her voice. This the Worm merely hastens.

thus, in a sense, we are all doomed. even if we stay away from black holes

None of us have any control over the deck or the hand we've been dealt. What we do have is total responibility as to how we play the hand.

A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death.

mastered their fate was more important than what that fate was.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. It is destiny which makes them prudent.

But circumstances make victims of us all at times.

Everything that had happened was all part of the same great big something, it had to happen, I just knew

Or perhaps the truth was that there is no Fate, no pattern, nothing at all except a tired man looking back and forgetting everything but this and that detail which the very act of memory composes into a fate. Eschenburg, remembering his childhood, wondered whether Fate was merely a form of forgetfulness.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor favor to those of skill, but time and chance happen to them all. An essential part of rationality is dealing with randomness in our lives and uncertainty in our knowledge.

Not only does the universe not care about our desires, but in the natural course of events it will appear to thwart them, because there are so many more ways for things to go wrong than for them to go right.

And according to a joke that was told many times in 1993, Bill and Hillary Clinton were being driven through her hometown when Hillary spotted an old boyfriend pumping gas. If you hadn' married me, said Bill, you'd be the wife of a gas station attendant. If I hadn't married you, replied Hillary, he would be president.

Who will live and who will die are not inscribed in a Book of Life. They are affected by human knowledge and agency, as the world becomes more intelligible and life becomes more precious.

The first piece of wisdom they offer is that misfortune may be no one's fault.

That bias is built in because of the asymmetry of time: there is a nonzero probability at any moment that we will be felled by an unpreventable accident like a lightning strike or landslide, making the advantage of any costly longevity gene moot.