Quotes About Fate

And I can never feel the glad radiance of sunlit days without sadly remembering and pondering over the fate of the beggar who was such an outcast in life, that his horrible death was a relief to all who had known him.

Egyedül a halál bizonyos.

we are not here on earth to change our destiny but to fulfill it.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die. One woman sees a riselka: her path comes clear to her. Two women see a riselka: one of them shall bear a child. Three women see a riselka: one is blessed, one is clear, one shall bear a child.

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than smart.

Take responsibility for your fate. You still may not succeed, but at least you'll try.

Once apparently the chief concern and masterpiece of the gods, the human race now begins to bear the aspect of an accidental by-product of their vast, inscrutable and probably nonsensical operations.

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live.

If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in oil and set first to his clothing one night.

Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love of mystery and of the past was his undoing. He stumbled on things no mortal ought ever to know, and reached back through the years as no one ever should reach; and something came out of those years to engulf him.

I think Professor Angell died because he knew too much, or because he was likely to learn too much. Whether I shall go as he did remains to be seen, for I have learned much now.

Who knows the end? What

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise.

If heaven ever wishes to grant me a boon, it will be a total effacing of the results of a mere chance which fixed my eye on a certain stray piece of shelf-paper.

Las estrellas eran otra vez favorables, y lo que un viejo culto no había podido lograr por su voluntad, un puñado de inocentes marineros lo hacía por accidente.

Lovecraft also likes to play with the idea of fate. In many of Lovecraft's stories the protagonist is not in control of his own actions but must follow the path of fate. Many of his characters would be free from danger if they were simply able to run away but this is not possible as the course of their fate must be followed.

Again there was manifest that lure and driving of fatality which had all along seemed to direct my course.

the fate of that sinful King of Runazar in Lord Dunsany's tale, whom the Gods decided must not only cease to be, but must cease ever to have been.

Gold, or at least the prospect of it, saved him, then killed him.

A determinação e o destino são irmãos, e ambos repousam no mesmo coração.