Quotes About Fate

Kar udejanjamo je pred nami; sami oblikujemo svojo usodo.

You imagine that there's no use struggling against fate, that she will always have her way, no matter what we do. But don't you see? It's our very efforts to cheat fate, or to change it, that make things come to pass in the way they were meant to.

sometimes it feels as if life is governed by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but would they have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

There is coming a storm of fire and blood, Mixtli.

En la tarde de ese día, en medio del tumulto causado por la tormenta, en una pequeña casa en la isla de Xaltocan, nací de mi madre para empezar a morir.

Los dioses han arreglado que por un tiempo estemos separados, para que nunca más lo estemos.

If it's to be, it will be me.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

But they can explain a great deal. The circumstances into which people are born and the range of opportunities to which they are exposed shape both the choices available to them and the process by which they make those choices even if they, ultimately, still make the choice. I have yet to meet anyone who denies that individuals have free will. But I also have yet to meet anyone who makes a convincing argument that circumstances don't shape what you can do with that will.

Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!

us to comprehend, for we are ourselves part of wyrd and cannot stand back to observe it as if it were a separate force.

But the threads of wyrd are a dimension of ourselves that we cannot grasp with words. We spin webs of words, yet wyrd slips through like the wind. The secrets of wyrd do not lie in our word-hoards, but are locked in the soul. We can only discern the shadows

know the flow of the grain. The pattern of wyrd represented by this tree is visible in the grain and you must work within it.

Everything that has happened took place because you arrived. If you had not come here, the warrior might still be alive and the horse might not have been sick. A man has been killed, and a horse healed, for your benefit.

Nothing may happen without wyrd, for it is present in everything, but wyrd does not make things happen. Wyrd is created at every instant and so wyrd is the happening.

A very much larger number have existed over the past history of life, owing to the fact that the ultimate fate of nearly all species is extinction, as described in Chapter 4.)

Have I been clear enough? The world is dying, is in fact already well on its way to being dead. Were it not, you never would never have wandered in here. You would never have occasion to think, what is this? An unoccupied bunker in which to shelter myself? What luck! And then have fallen into my trap. You instead would have a job in a small town as an accountant, say, or a data specialist.

Where are you going?" said Abram. Mikael looked upriver, a sad distant gaze in his eyes, and said, "Babylon.

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

Something you need most might be something you turn away from, something you turn away from might be something you regret, and something you regret, in the end, might cost you the one chance you ever had.

Yes, we choose when we will come into our physical state and when we will leave. We know when we have accomplished what we were sent down here to accomplish. We know when the time is up, and you will accept your death.

Earn your death.

In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place.