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Quotes About Fate

Venti e nubi, turbini e folate, inutili stelle! Che fare? Disperato s'abbandona, poiché chi è stanco decide di morire e lascia fare, si lascia andare, cede, ed eccolo rotolato per sempre nelle mortali profondità dell'abisso vorace. Oh, implacabile cammino delle società umane! Perdita di uomini e d'anime per strada! Oceano in cui cade tutto ciò che la legge lascia cadere! Sinistra scomparsa del soccorso, morte morale!
~ Victor Hugo
and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words
~ Victor Hugo
Questro libro è un dramma in cui il primo personaggio è l'infinito: l'uomo il secondo.
~ Victor Hugo
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do
~ Victor Hugo
He saw nothing of all this. People who are crushed do not look behind them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them.
~ Victor Hugo
True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
~ Victor Hugo
God was as visible in this affair as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool which he wills. He is not responsible to men.
~ Victor Hugo
We all lead double lives. It's a privilege for the artist and a curse for the ordinary man. One has to get used to it. It's a terrible thing to know too much. In life, our words are improvisations and our actions careless mistakes that end up by becoming habits. Fate beign the distraction of the gods, I distract myself by evading questions that I never asked myself in the past. We are in the hands of the improbable, are we not, my dear Cosette? - Monsieur Verjat-
~ Victor Hugo
plunged into chance,--that is to say, swallowed up in Providence
~ Victor Hugo
What took place next in the fate of M. Myriel?
~ Victor Hugo
Il dort. Quoique le sort fut pour lui bien étrange, Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.
~ Victor Hugo
La Tour-Gauvain avait une destinée étrange : un Gauvain l'attaquait, un Gauvain la défendait.
~ Victor Hugo
Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, was slowly bringing these two beings near each other, fully charged and all languishing with the stormy electricities of passion.
~ Victor Hugo
les hommes sont tous condamnés à mort avec des sursis indéfinis.
~ Victor Hugo
Lo que de los hombres se dice, verdadero o falso, ocupa tanto lugar en su destino, y sobre todo en su vida, como lo que hacen. El
~ Victor Hugo
So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny;
~ Victor Hugo
He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, He lived. He died when he had no longer his angel. The thing came to pass simply, of itself, As the night comes when day is gone. a
~ Victor Hugo
Il est la chandelle du sépulcre. Éclairer l'ouverture inexorable, avertir de l'inévitable, pas de plus tragique ironie.
~ Victor Hugo
Me acuerdo de haber leído en cierto libro que todos los hombres están condenados a muerte a plazos indefinidos.
~ Victor Hugo
bütün insanlar günü belirsiz bir ölüme mahkûmdurlar
~ Victor Hugo
Zabluda je uobraziti da se sudbina može iscrpsti i da se može dodirnuti dno makar ?ega bilo.
~ Victor Hugo
Duerme. Y, aunque el destino le dio andadura extraña, vivía. Y se murió cundo perdió a su ángel; sin más, sencillamente, le sucedió ese trance, como llega la noche cuando el día se marcha.
~ Victor Hugo
Hay encuentros que nos ligan, y casualidades que nos impulsan por el camino del deber.
~ Victor Hugo
Avaj! Šta su sve te sudbine tako gurnute i izmešane? Kuda idu? Zašto su takve? Onaj koji to zna vidi sav mrak. On je jedan. Zove se bog.
~ Victor Hugo