Quotes About Fate

car chacun, ici comme ailleurs, naît avec sa loi propre ; ici comme ailleurs, chaque destinée est particulière et pourtant il faut se soumettre à ce morne destin commun ; quelques-uns résistent : d'où ces drames sur lesquels les familles font silence. Etre soi-même ? répétai-je, mais nous ne le sommes que dans la mesure où nous nous créons.

N'oubliez pas, on vit juste pour quelques rencontres.

Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read.

Clent, however, suppressed any sense of pity without the slightest difficulty. His brain was busy with the icy clockwork of calculation. If only this young woman's fears were justified! Beamabeth Marlebourne would be unlikely to threaten anybody, locked away inside the Luck's cell for the rest of her life. Such a fate had a tempting poetry to it too, given that she really was the Luck of Toll, and had been all her life.

Little god, you see the world through such black eyes." "Got no choice. My father give 'em to me.

Neverfell was tired, so very tired. Waiting in her room to learn of her fate, her mind kept dropping away into sleep for numb instants no longer than a blink. Next moment her thoughts would jar her awake again, thrashing and crashing and clattering like a monstrous waterwheel, turning and turning without end or purpose. She jerked and stared and barely knew where she was, dream pieces floating like iceberg shards across her half-waking mind.

Everyone on the Myriad was always one divine whim away from annihilation.

the murderess of time.

Do you really imagine that your scrawl of a map has just sealed the fate of Toll and Mandelion?" Clent asked quietly but coolly. "Madam, it will make no real difference. We are simply not that important. We are ants watching the clash of dragons and trying not to get cooked to a crisp by creatures that have barely noticed us.

Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.

El azar ordena al mundo más a fondo de lo que suponemos.

Es posible enamorarse de alguien en un instante? ¿Puede leerse en una mirada el ADN del alma?

La única situación en la que no se tienen problemas ni incertidumbres se da cuando estás muerto.

Porque la suerte no depende de ti, sino del azar.

On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength.

From the moment a child is born, the death process, and the fight against it, begins.

The destiny of your own soul is in your own hands by the choice you make.

Only the good die young.

That's the way it crumbles, cookie-wise

But there's always a choice. We make our choice, and then we put the blame on fate.

Maybe it has something to do with the pull of the moon because, despite the statistical improbability of any two people meeting up, it is inevitable that the tremulous are drawn to the languished, the sick to the broken, the forsaken to the sad, every pot has its cover, and the funny to the funny ones, too.

But since Heaven wills one life to man should fall, And this is very brief--too brief for all We think to do, why should we fret and moil, And vex ourselves with never-ending toil?

If Saturn's son, and changeful Fate, assigned A double life-time to our mortal kind, That one in joys and one in woes be past, Who had his woes first would have joys at last.

How brief the life allotted us by Fate!