Quotes About Fate

Osim toga, svet je mali. Ponekad se stvari sklope na najsla?i na?in. Drugi put se sklope na manje slatke na?ine, ili se ne sklope uopšte.

What's hectic about all this is the thought that I haven't asked to be here. I am just here. So is everybody else. We are all here. But we haven't asked to be. It's not our fault.

Canek dijo: —Nunca te enorgullezcas de los frutos de tu inteligencia. Sólo eres dueño del esfuerzo que pusiste en su cultivo; de lo que logra, nada más eres un espectador. La inteligencia es como una flecha: una vez que se aleja del arco, ya no la gobierna nadie. Su vuelo depende de tu fuerza, pero también del viento y, ¿por qué no decirlo?, del destino que camina detrás de ella.

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

Two-Face was right. You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

You cannot escape your destiny,' 

So now you have to live the rest of your life knowing you're going to die someday and disappear forever.

You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.

mueres como un héroe o vives lo suficiente como para verte convertido en un villano.

You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.

Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.

Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.

In death too, there is always something of the rich cat that lets the mouse run before devouring it.

Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]

Irgendwie drängt sich auch dem ganz einfachen Gemüt die Ahnung auf, daß sein Leben in einen ewigen Kreislauf geschaltet, und daß der Tod des einzelnen gar kein so bedeutungsvolles Ereignis ist.

Gracias a Dios, lo más que nos puede ocurrir es que nos maten a tiros».

Il y a des chances qui tombent dans les bras du premier venu qu'elles rencontrent, des putains de chance qui le laissent tomber aussitôt pour aller avec le suivant, et il y a des chances avisées, au contraire, qui guettent une personne et l'éprouvent lentement.

Che me ne faccio delle girandole dei verbi? Non sono il padrone del tempo, sono il suo asino. Va bene per gli scrittori il passato e il suo ceraunavolta. E il futuro a comodo agli indovini che si arricchiscono coi pronostici. Io conosco le vite che durano un giorno e arrivare a notte è già morire vecchi.

Le plus souvent notre meilleur côté ne dépend pas de nous, il est confié à l'initiative d'un inconnu qui vient le réveiller par hasard.

Fortuna, ma ci sono fortune che vanno in braccio al primo che incontrano, fortune puttane che piantano subito e vanno col prossimo e invece ci sono fortune sagge che spiano una persona e la collaudano lentamente

The self, then, as a performed character, is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, and to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented, and the characteristic issue, the crucial concern, is whether it will be credited or discredited.

tragedy is partly a matter of where a story ends.

T]he two fundamental tragedies of human existence, frustrated love and death