Quotes About Fate

One must constantly meditate upon the absurdities of chance, a subject even more edifying than the subject of death.

There are indeed many places where I could start. I might start with Rachel's tears, or Priscilla's. There is much shedding of tears in this story. In a complex explanation any order may seem arbitrary. Where after all does anything begin? That three of the four starting points I have mentioned were causally independent of each other suggests speculations, doubtless of the most irrational kind, upon the mystery of human fate.

It had been his fate not to be interested in anything except everything.

Moy thought, I shall make no more masks, something is over forever. Anyway, she thought, this time next year I shall probably be dead.

I have been struck down before my life begins. I have already died in the war.

Things which he and she had done and been in years past were having their deep inevitable consequences.

I like the idea of a black sun; like a black hole in space, sucking everything into darkness, where we came from and where we're heading

Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.

Tae be touched by real love requires great fortune, it's no in your hands.

From this vantage point he came to a realization that everything that had happened to him before this had been a journey upward through time, everything that occurred after it a descent. If he could not control his fate, why be born?

Fortune is beastly — it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.

a moving finger having once written could never be lured back to unwrite.

deus ex machina

Mankind has lost its own say in its future.' 'It never had any, really.

Pero ella había muerto. Su matrimonio sólo duró cinco años; y después comprendió que sólo podría vivir contra aquel vago y temible enemigo que le privaba de su dignidad de hombre al controlar su destino, que convertía la vida en una triste lucha contra un fin predestinado, que hacía de todo el universo un juego de ajedrez odioso y mortal.

Ben Estes knew he was going to die and it didn't make him feel any better to know that that was the chance he had lived with all these years.

Cleon II was Lord of the Universe. Cleon II also suffered from a painful and undiagnosed ailment. By the queer twists of human affairs, the two statements are not mutually exclusive, nor even particularly incongruous.

The stars are dying. The original star is dead. (Zee Prime)

There was even a scrap of poetry he treasured which stated that a moving finger having once written could never be lured back to unwrite.

But the house was somehow very lonely at night and Dr. Darell found that the fate of the Galaxy made remarkably little difference while his daughter's mad little life was in danger.

Where do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again?

Si el destino de un hombre depende de la desgracia de otro, entonces no existe buena fortuna para nadie.

Can a condemned tribe lead itself to its own burial?