Quotes About Fate

It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses

grim reminder of how little the natural world cares for our plans.

Winds blew," she said. Tolbert left, never knowing another wind that had blown, one he had diverted, yanking Paulo to the side of the road on that rainy night, preventing a speeding car from striking him, a tragedy that a different version of the world had planned, a version that did not grant Annie and Paulo even one night of marriage, nor the child that would come from it. But there are so many times our lives are altered invisibly. The flip of a pencil, from written to erased.

If you were really God," I seethed, "you would have stopped him." He looked to the sea and shook his head. "God starts things," he said. "Man stops them.

You did this, too? he finally said. You met five people? She nodded. A different five people, he said. She nodded again. And they explained everything? And it made a difference? She smiled. All the difference. She touched his chin. And then I waited for you.

People lament that if their loved ones had been born fifty years later, they might have survived what killed them. But perhaps what killed them is what led someone to find a cure.

Fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.

Qual é o significado de tudo isso? Qual o objetivo dessa tristeza toda? Deve ter algum propósito, ou então o universo é governado pelo acaso. Mas qual é o propósito?

Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography is destiny, respond the historians.

O]ver sufficiently long a term, as everyone knows, there is nothing that does not have as its consequence death.

in any case over sufficiently long a term, as everyone knows, there is nothing that does not have as its consequence death.

To flee forever is beyond the capacity of most: at some point even a hunted animal will stop, exhausted, and awaits its fate, if only for a while.

He knew how little it took to make a man into meat: the wrong blow, the wrong gunshot, the wrong flick of a blade, turn of a car, presence of a microorganism in a handshake, a cough. He was aware that alone a person is almost nothing.

Geography is destiny

He noticed her. He listened to her. He summoned the nerve to speak to her. And that, as they were both fond of saying when recounting the story of their meeting in subsequent years, was that.

Fighting against one's Fate can weaken the blood. Sometimes, or perhaps most times, it can be fatal.

Les hommes, quelque beau visage que fortune leur fasse, ne se peuvent appeler heureux jusqu'à ce qu'on leur ai vu passer le dernier jour de leur vie, à cause de l'incertitude et de la variabilité des choses humaines qui d'un bien léger mouvement se changent d'un état en un autre tout divers

Nul vent ne faict pour celuy qui n'a point de port destiné

YaÅŸamak için topra??m?z olmayabilir ama ölmek için toprak bulunur nas?l olsa

If she had spurned gifts from fate or God or some other earnest substitute, she would never feel it in that way. She felt like someone of whom she was fond, an old and future friend of herself, still unspent and up ahead somewhere, like a light that moves.

Nothing happens by chance. This is a world of order and laws.

Remember always that what you are seeking is also seeking you.

When a coin is minted, the devil kisses it.

Norns keep the tree Yggdrassil alive. Without them, nothing would exist… They show up when you're born and decide what kind of life you're going to have. I guess they were in a rotten mood when I came along, Jack said. He loaded up the water bag and supplies. Me too, Thorgil said gravely.