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Quotes About Fate

Tak, czÅ'owiek jest Å›miertelny, ale to jeszcze póÅ' biedy. Najgorsze, ?e to, i? jest Å›miertelny, okazuje siÄ™ niespodziewanie, w tym wÅ'aÅ›nie sÄ™k!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Yes, man is mortal, but that isn't so bad. What's bad is that sometimes he's unexpectedly mortal, that's the rub. And, in general, he can't even say in the morning what he'll be doing that very same night.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
He who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Yes, man is mortal, but that would still be just a minor problem. The bad thing is that he's sometimes suddenly mortal, and that's the whole point! And he can't possibly say what he's going to be doing the same evening.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
No có?, ten, który kocha, powinien dzieli? los tego, kogo kocha.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
These words, which do not appear in the definitive text, tell us how painfully Bulgakov weighed the question of cowardice and guilt in considering the fate of his hero, and how we should understand the ending of the final
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
No,' I reflected, 'I will fight against this Egyptian darkness for as long as fate keeps me here in the wilderness. Granulated sugar Ã¢â'¬Â¦ ye gods!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Mani pirms t?l? ce?a ir p?r??mušas skumjas. Messire, bet tas ta?u ir pavisam dabiski pat tad, ja cilv?ks zina, ka ce?a gal? vi?u gaida laime.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
L'amour surgit devant nous comme surgit de terre l'assassin au coin d'une ruelle obscure, et nous frappa tous deux d'un coup. Ainsi frappe la foudre, ainsi frappe le poignard !
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Uhvatila me tuga prije daleka putovanja. Zar ne, messire, ona je potpuno prirodna, ?ak i kada ?ovjek zna da ga na kraju toga puta ?eka sre?a ?
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Ali taj koji voli mora dijeliti sudbinu onoga koga voli.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Da, ?ovjek je smrtan, ali to bi bilo tek pola nevolje. Zlo je u tome što je nejgova smrt katkada posve iznenadna, eto u ?emu je trik! I op?enito, on ne može re?i ?ak ni što ?e raditi danas nave?er.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
But there were other victims as well, even after Woland left the capital, and these victims, sadly enough, were black cats.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Can it be that my single purpose on this earth is to destroy the hopes of others? Since I have been living and breathing, fate has somehow always led me into the dramatic climaxes of others' lives, as if without me no one would be able to die, or to come to despair! I have been the necessary character of the fifth act; I have played the sorry role of executioner or traitor involuntarily. 
~ Mikhail Lermontov
J'ai, outre celle-là, une autre conviction, à savoir qu'un soir maudit, j'eus le malheur de naître.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
How many people, in the beginning of life, think they will finish it as Alexander the Great or Lord Byron, and instead, retain for the whole of their existence, the rank of titulary counsellor?
~ Mikhail Lermontov
D'où vient le vent, vient aussi le bonheur.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.
~ Milan Kundera
Es muss sein. Es muss sein.
~ Milan Kundera
But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.
~ Milan Kundera
Being a woman is a fate Sabina did not choose. What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure. Sabina believed that she had to assume to correct attitude to her unchosen faith. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as taking pride in it.
~ Milan Kundera
If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him.
~ Milan Kundera
For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.
~ Milan Kundera
Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.
~ Milan Kundera