Quotes About Fate

I wanted to believe that in the end, the universe would take care of us, and we would end up exactly where we were meant to be.

I have often wondered if a person's life follows a path that is laid out long before he or she ever takes a first step. Or are we in control of what happens to us?

So, I couldn't just bury it. I felt that would be a terrible injustice. A denial of fate and every other type of magic that existed in the world. And I wanted to believe in magic. I wanted to believe that in the end, the universe would take care of us, and we would end up exactly where we were meant to be.

Personally, I believe certain things are meant to be and "coincidence" is far too casual a word for what happens to many of us.

How astounding that life can be so cruel one moment, and so generous the next.

there has to be some sort of magic in the universe when incredible things unfold as they do.

We were supposed to love each other forever. I'd always believed we would, that we were inseparable. Soul mates from the first moment our eyes met. How did this happen?

Now, my fate would lie in God's hands. I prayed he would be merciful.

We learn the lessons we are meant to learn when the moment is right.

I've come to learn that certain things in life are beyond our control. Others are beyond comprehension.

she had lately come to understand injustice and tricks of fate, and how they could turn you into someone else completely, maybe even turn you into the person you were meant to be.

She'll go to hell. They all will. If hell will even have them.

He doesn't believe in what is meant to be. He only believes in what is. We can know a river, but we can't know all the drops in it, every journey they could have taken instead of this one.

Lady Madelyne had sealed her own fate. She'd warmed his feet.

Il n'y a pas de hasard, il n'y a que des méchancetés du sort et ses perfidies, préparées de longue main, n'ont cette apparence fortuite que parce que les dessous nous en échappent.

You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bolt; that clutches hold of you by the heart, as irrevocably as death; that becomes the lodestar by which you steer the rest of your life. I would not wish such a love on anyone, man or woman, for it can make your life a paradise, or it can destroy you utterly.

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

Y mirá que apenas nos conocíamos y ya la vida urdía lo necesario para desencontrarnos minuciosamente.

We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other.

Cómo si se pudiera elegir en el amor. Cómo si no fuera un rayo que te parte los huesos y te deja estaqueado en la mitad del patio... Vos no elegís la lluvia que te va a calar hasta los huesos cuando salís de un concierto

No es que haya que vivir, puesto que la vida nos es fatalmente dada... la vida se vive a sí misma, nos guste o no.

Y debo decir que confío plenamente en la casualidad de haberte conocido. Que nunca intentaré olvidarte, y que si lo hiciera, no lo conseguiría.

Y allá en el fondo está la muerte si no corremos y llegamos antes y comprendemos que ya no importa.

Apenas nos conocíamos y ya la vida urdía lo necesario para desencontrarnos minuciosamente.