Quotes About Fate

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise.

On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.

Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.

Complicated. And yet—simple. They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.

I dreamed I read the cards for you," she said. "And?" "And I predicted I would bring heartbreak and trouble into your life," she said. "Too late," he said, staring down at their joined hands. "Heartbreak and trouble got there ahead of you.

Like everyone else at the Anchorage, except maybe for Natalie, Jonah had developed the blinders that allowed him to dance on. That prevented him from seeing the gradual decline of everyone around him; that allowed him to pretend that they weren't all heading for the same tragic end. The band played on as the ship sank beneath them. Distracted by the magic of music, they would keep dancing until the waves closed over their heads.

Matelon gripped both her hands. "We are soldiers," he said. "We are not game pieces on a board. Don't let them play us. Give this thing a chance." Lyss gently pulled free. "You're wrong, Captain," she said. "We never had a chance. At the end of the day, that is all that we are—game pieces. If you don't know that by now, you soon will.

Why did he deserve to live when everyone around him died?

Why me?" Han said. "Why not Dancer? He's not likely to go mad on you." Just then he was rather taken with the notion of going mad, of breaking things. It seemed like a good out.

What if it was true - what Elend had told his mother? What if he was cursed because the blood of the Demon King ran in his veins? His family fortunes had certainly fallen over the past thousand years - from King of the Seven Realms to starveling street thief.

Bagaimana aku bisa mengetahui apa yang akan terjadi terhadap diriku? Siapa yang dapat menceritakan bagaimana kehidupanku di masa depan? Itulah sebabnya aku selalu menolak hal ini, karena aku yakin bahwa buruk-baiknya kehidupan seseorang hanya dapat dinilai setelah dia mati.

Makahan waktu itu nasibku adalah untuk menaklukkan, bukan untuk ditaklukkan.

Ketika aku masuk penjara, aku akan menghadapinya dengan tabah. Kalau memang nasibku harus menghadapi penderitaan, biarkanlah. Bukankah lebih baik Sukarno menderita untuk sementara daripada Indonesia menderita untuk selama-lamanya?

There are no coincidences in God's providence.

We worden meegenomen door een wervelwind die begon bij de aanvang van de tijd; en als die wervelwind de schijn van orde heeft aangenomen, is dat enkel om ons beter mee te slepen...

I have wed twice, sir, and been widowed twice. No man survives his nuptial night with me, it appears, and you, sir, have been too kind to deserve such a fate.

We carve our destinies blindfolded, with sharp knives.

It seemed both proper and at the same time deeply unfair that so much of life was left to chance.

There is no such thing as coincidence in this world. The only thing is hitsuzen. Hitsuzen...A naturally fore-ordained event. A state in which all other outcomes are impossible.

There is no such thing as coincidence, only hitsuzen.