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Quotes About Fate

Bir gün çocuksu bir gururla —belki de hâlâ o gururla hareket ediyorumdur— evinin önüne gelmedim; fakat inat ve isyanla dolu o boÅŸ akÅŸam ne korkunçtu. Ertesi akÅŸam tekrar evinin önünde gururu k?r?lm?? bir ÅŸekilde duruyor, bütün kaderim boyunca bana kapal? olan yaÅŸam?n?n önünde yapt???m gibi bekliyor, bekliyordum.
~ Stefan Zweig
Çünkü insanl?k tarihi davetsiz misafirleri sevmezdi; kahramanlar?n? kendi seçer, ne kadar usand?r?c? bir çabaya girerse girsinler hakk? olmayanlar? ac?mas?zca geri çevirirdi; talihin ilerlemekte olan arabas?ndan bir kez düÅŸen bir kiÅŸi, arabaya bir daha yetiÅŸemezdi.
~ Stefan Zweig
ezilmiÅŸ bir çiçekten yitip gitmiÅŸ bahar?n mis kokulu mucizesi nas?l anla??lmazsa, Madame de Prie'nin tarih olmuÅŸ yazg?s?n?n tutkulu çoÅŸkusu da sezilmiyordu bu sat?rlardan.
~ Stefan Zweig
nur in ersten Jugendjahren scheint Zufall noch mit Schicksal identisch. Später weiß man, dass die eigentliche Bahn des Lebens von innen bestimmt war; wie kraus und sinnlos unser Weg von unseren Wünschen abzuweichen scheint, immer führt er uns doch schließlich zu unserem unsichtbaren Ziel.
~ Stefan Zweig
Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for nothing, and that a price is always exacted for what fate bestows. She did not think she would have to pay a price. She simply accepted the rights of her royal position and performed no duties in exchange. She wanted to combine two things which are, in actual human experience, incompatible; she wanted to reign and at the same time to enjoy.
~ Stefan Zweig
Destiny cuts the cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.
~ Stefano Benni
I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
To learn to creatively live with the daimonic or be violently devoured by it. We will decide our own destiny. Let us choose wisely.
~ Stephen A. Diamond
The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.
~ A. C. Bradley
I am myself: a light. In me you find your fate. So be not blind to the truth shining from my glow.
~ M. C. Escher
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.
~ Gloria Estefan
The truth is, everything that's happened was supposed to happen. That doesn't mean I don't look back and think, God, I wish I hadn't had to go through some of those things.
~ Jennifer Lopez
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
~ Thomas Huxley
The truth brings no man a fortune.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.
~ Dave Eggers
Your character is your destiny.
~ Eugene Sullivan
They often say, "What's the point in astrology if you can't change your destiny?" Well, it's true that you can't change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity.
~ Kedar Joshi
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.
~ Moby
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Dance with me, Death, I am ready.
~ Terry Goodkind, Stone of Tears
No matter how extreme things get, it still has that ring of truth about it that backs the characters - even though they're despicable and what they're doing isn't right you still care for their fate.
~ Andy Serkis
Truth is the one thing in nature always consistent with itself, and it is the one guide given to us in steering on the ocean of fate.
~ Arthur Alfred Lynch