Quotes About Fate

Enough that in the present case, as in millions, it was not the two halves of a perfect whole that confronted each other at the perfect moment; a missing counterpart wandered independently about the earth waiting in crass obtuseness till the late time came.

Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn.

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single, we do.

This weakness of character... suggested that he was the sort of man who was born to ache a good deal before the fall of the curtain on his unncessary life.

The man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say See! to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply Here! to a body's cry of Where? till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome, outworn game.

Over and above the genuine emotion which she raised in his heart there hung the sense that he was casting a die by impulse which he might not have thrown by judgment.

Hence Bathsheba lived in a perception that her purposes were broken off. She was not a woman who could hope on without good materials for the process, differing thus from the less far-sighted and energetic, though more petted ones of the sex, with whom hope goes on as a sort of clockwork which the merest food and shelter are sufficient to wind up; and perceiving clearly that her mistake had been a fatal one, she accepted her position, and waited coldly for the end.

The boy's face expressed the whole tale of their situation. On that little shape had converged all the inauspiciousness and shadow which had darkened the first union of Jude, and all the accidents, mistakes, fears, errors of the last. He was their nodal point, their focus, their expression in a single term. For the rashness of those parents he had groaned, for their ill assortment he had quaked, and for the misfortunes of these he had died.

TotuÅŸi, experienÅ£a ei consta nu numai dintr-o serie de dezam?giri, ci mai ales dintr-o serie de substituiri. Se întâmplase de mai multe ori ca ceea ce dorea s? nu-i fie acordat, dar s? nu fi dorit ceea ce i se acorda. AÅŸa c? acum privea cu un fel de liniÅŸte interioar? zilele pe veci apuse când Donald fusese iubitul ei tainic ÅŸi se întreba ce lucru nedorit îi va trimite acum cerul în locul lui.

Nella difettosa esecuzione del piano ben disposto dell'universo raramente l'invito provoca l'arrivo di chi si invoca; raramente si incontra l'uomo da amare, quando viene l'ora per l'amore. La natura non dice troppo spesso guarda alla povera creatura nel momento in cui il guardare potrebbe portare a una lieta conclusione, nè risponde qui alla carne che grida dove?; finché tutto questo nascondersi e cercarsi diventa un gioco penoso senza mordente.

Und da sie genötigt war, sich selbst zu den Glücklichen zu zählen, hörte sie nicht auf, über den Fortbestand des Unvorhergesehenen zu staunen, wo diejenige, der solche ungebrochene Heiterkeit im Erwachsenenstadium zuteil wurde, sie selbst war, deren Jugend sie gelehrt zu haben schien, daß Glück nur eine zufällige Episode in dem allgemeinen Drama menschlicher Pein war.

How Great My Grief How great my grief, my joys how few, Since first it was my fate to know thee! —Have the slow years not brought to view How great my grief, my joys how few, Nor memory shaped old times anew, Nor loving-kindness helped to show thee How great my grief, my joys how few, Since first it was my fate to know thee?

Had she perceived this meeting's import, she might have asked why she was doomed to be seen and coveted that day by the wrong man and not by some other man, the right and desired one in all respects - as nearly as humanity can supply the right and desired; yet to him who amongst her acquaintance might have approximated to this kind, she was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

Marriage is only an accident of situation, situation an accident of history, and history of geography.

Marriage is only an accident of situation, situation an accident of history, history of geography.

Thomas Hardy

Kad se dobro zamišljeni plan nesretno ostvari, onaj koga zoveš malokad dolazi, i ?ovjek koji bi se mogao voljeti rijetko nai?e u vrijeme kad se ljubav traži.

rara vez el hombre digno de ser amado coincide con la hora de amar. Raramente dice la naturaleza «¡Mira!» al pobre ser humano en el instante en que hacerlo así puede conducirle a la felicidad; y pocas veces responde «Aquí» al grito de «¿Dónde?», hasta que ese juego del escondite degenera en un pasatiempo pesado y tedioso.

En la imperfecta ordenación de las cosas del mundo rara vez surge la criatura invocada; rara vez el hombre digno de ser amado coincide con la hora de amar.

How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.

In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, Is this all?

Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

the man to love rarely coincides with the hour of loving.

how seldom we recognize the sounds when the bolt of our fate slides home.