Quotes About Fate

That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

I don't believe in coincidences. Neither do I. That's a coincidence, isn't it?

Sometimes your destiny takes you to dark places where you'd rather not be, but destiny, as they say, is destiny.

Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own.

He jerked a thumb in the direction of the baby on the stretcher, who had put his fingers in his mouth and stopped yelling. 'That was the driver. Before the accident he was thirty-one. By the time we got here he was eight – in a few hours he'll be nothing more than a damp patch on the blanket.

Up until the moment of death, there was a 100% survival rate. Really. I wouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.

Sometimes your destiny takes you to dark places where you'd rather not be, but destiny, as they say, is destiny.

It occurred to him that perhaps the Dark One had got a bum deal -- Demetrios would have made his own way to hell in the fullness of time, without an Allegro Equipe to take him there.

Puede acaso el destino ser malo como un ser inteligente, y llegar a ser monstruoso como el corazón humano?»

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

But the longer you live, the more you realize there are a lot of flukish things in this world.

We begin to die with our first breath. Death is inside us, ticking closer, closer, with every beat of our heart. It is the end no man can escape

L'humain vous gêne aux entournures dans la famille. Il vous faut un tête-à-tête avec le destin et la mort. Et tuer votre père et coucher avec votre mère et apprendre tout cela après, avidement, mot par mot. Quel breuvage, hein, les mots qui vous condamnent ? Et comme on les boit goulûment quand on s'appelle Å'dipe, ou Antigone.

This is the reappearance of the principle of Evil in a new guise. No morality or guilt is implied, however: the principle of Evil is simply synonymous with the principle of reversal, with the turns of fate. In systems undergoing total positivization - and hence desymbolization - evil is equivalent, in all its forms, to the fundamental rule of reversibility.

Technology evolves, language changes, the voice breaks, fate overtakes us. Naming things is never innocent. It is to precipitate them beyond their own existence into the ecstasy of language which is already the ecstasy of their end. We have no more reasons to exist than stones and if one part of our life is in the sun, then, necessarily, the other is in the cold of hell.

We are real only by chance, and immortal without knowing it.

If destiny is implacable, that is because you have not known how to please it.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't like?

I grant you that, if you'll admit, as I do, that we are pawns of an unknown force that lives within us that dictates our actions and compels us to speak this language.

It is in this way that a war is disastrous. If it does not kill, it transmits to some an energy alien to their own resources; to others it permits what the law forbids and accustoms them to short cuts. It artificially glorifies ingenuity, pity, daring. A whole younger generation believes itself to be sublime and collapses when it has to draw on itself for patriotism and fate.

Le hasard, c'est la forme que Dieu prend pour passer incognito.

All the same, persons who base their calculations on the inexorable pressure of the force of circumstance assume, correctly, that such lives are doomed. The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies, but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heart-rending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.