Quotes About Fate

all children are born into a losing struggle with death

La vida es azarosa e injusta, y el pecado, por muy original que sea, queda generalmente impune.

Death is] one thing one is certainly born to do.

Smiješno mi je sada toga se i sjetiti: kada sam prvi put sreo Ota, pomislio sam da ?emo zajedno proživjeti do kraja života.

I hold the Fates bound fast in iron chains, And with my hand turn Fortune's wheel about;

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned.

Stipendium peccati mors est.

Oh, Fausto, ahora tienes apenas una hora de vida, y serás maldecido para la eternidad. ¡Quedaos quietas, esferas celestiales siempre en movimiento, que el tiempo pare y no llegue nunca la medianoche!

Thus Time, and all-states-ordering Ceremony Had banished all offense: Time's golden thigh Upholds the flowery body of the earth In sacred harmony, and every birth Of men and actions makes legitimate, Being used aright. The use of time is Fate. ---From "Hero and Leander, Sestiad III

The general welcomes Tamburlaine receiv'd,      When he arrived last upon the 1 stage,      Have made our poet pen his Second Part,      Where Death cuts off the progress of his pomp,      And murderous Fates throw all his triumphs 2 down.      But what became of fair

I've won Satan's lottery.

He shuffled along with the hang-dog look of the cosmically fucked.

Mr. Fresh looked up. The book says if we don't do our jobs everything could go dark, become like the Underworld. I don't know what the Underworld is like, Mr. Asher, but I've caught some of the road show from there a couple of times, and I'm not interested in finding out. How 'bout you? Maybe it's Oakland, Charlie said. What's Oakland? The Underworld. Oakland is not the Underworld! The Tenderloin? Charlie suggested.

She set the course of his life with just a smile.

In fact, he sorely hoped that it would happen, because otherwise, the world made no sense, there was no justice, and life was just a tangled ball of chaos.

Fate does not favor the dim.

Mr. Asher, you can resist who you are for only so long. Finally, you just decide to go with fate.

Splendid. I believe we've achieved a whole new level of doomed.

I'm fucked. We're fucked. Together. Like Romeo and Juliet, only we get to be in a sequel.

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

Sorry. Accident. Couldn't be helped.

You cannot believe what you do not believe, Rumi siad. I am an Untouchable because my karma dictates it.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. —Dag Hammarskjöld

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