Quotes About Fate

Hay encrucijadas en el destino que no podemos reconocer en el momento en que se presentan, pero si se vive tan largo como he vivido yo se pueden ver con nitidez. Allí donde se cruzan o bifurcan los caminos debemos decidir la dirección que vamos a tomar. Esa decisión puede determinar el curso del resto de nuestra vida.

Echaba de menos sexo, romance y amor. El primero lo conseguía de vez en cuando, el segundo era cuestión de suerte y el tercero era un premio del cielo que seguramente no le tocaría

La gitana sólo me auguró una larga vida, lo que siempre dicen por una moneda.

Nascemos com certas cartas, e com elas jogamos nosso jogo; alguns recebem cartas ruins e perdem tudo, mas outros jogam magistralmente com essas mesmas cartas e triunfam.

They would regret that they had not killed him; he would get out of that hole and find Juliana sooner or later, even if he had to pursue her to hell itself. "Oh, you won't have to go that far, we are on our way to California, Diego said in farewell

She was one of those people who are born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengeance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism, but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation...

Victor felt relieved: if one lives long enough, circles close. The Ofelia del Solar circle closed neatly for him in that Athenaeum café, without leaving any ashes.

drama: si ella hubiera nacido mil veces antes y tuviera que nacer mil veces más en el futuro, siempre vendría al mundo con la misión de amar a ese hombre de igual manera.

I think of my destiny as an expatriate. It is my fate to wander from place to place, and to adapt to new soils. I believe I will be able to do that because handfuls of Chilean soil are caught in my roots; I carry them with me always.

No sabía que ella había visto su propio destino, por eso lo había llamado con el pensamiento y estaba dispuesta a casarse sin amor.

Creo que ha decidido morirse, y la ciencia no tiene remedio alguno contra ese mal

She knew the strange healing power words had from what she had written and discussed concerning her brother Enrique's fate—how important it was to share one's pain and discover that others too had their fair share of it, that lives are often alike and feelings similar.

Psst! Father Restrepo! If that story about hell is a lie, we're all fucked, aren't we. . . .

According to Cecilia, Valdivia's star rose when he met me and began to decline when he left me behind, a frightening theory because I do not want the glory for his successes or the guilt for his failures. Each of us is master of his or her own destiny.

A los veintidós años, sospechando que tenían el tiempo contado, Ichimei y Alma se atragantaron de amor para consumirlo entero, pero mientras más intentaban agotarlo, más imprudente era el deseo, y quien diga que todo fuego se apaga solo tarde o temprano, se equivoca: hay pasiones que son incendios hasta que las ahoga el destino de un zarpazo y aun así quedan brasas calientes listas para arder apenas se les da oxígeno.»

I have read true piety defined as: loving one's destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of "religiousness" is the condition for real happiness.

If you're alive, then there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.

When I was very little, my father used to say, "If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.

It's either some sort of a kismet or something that I've been offered a film like 'Zero Dark Thirty,' which I would have lined up to be the first one to watch that movie, had I not shot it.

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

I know what it's like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.

Misfortune comes to all men.