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Quotes About Fate

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all become nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life...
~ Philip Pullman
If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal. But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart.
~ Philip Pullman
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
~ Philip Pullman
Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.
~ Philip Pullman
Why, yes, the mo­ment you're born, your death comes in­to the world with you, and it's your death that takes you out.
~ Philip Pullman
The fate of Susan Pevensie indicates some sort of crazed, deranged Manichaeism. Here's a simple test: What is the greatest Christian virtue? Well, it's charity, isn't it? It's love. If somebody who knew nothing about Christian doctrine, and who had been told that Lewis was a great Christian teacher, read all the way through those books, would he get that message? No.
~ Philip Pullman
Wir sind alle dem Schicksal unterworfen [...] aber wir müssen so tun, als seien wir es nicht, sonst würden wir vor Verzweiflung sterben.
~ Philip Pullman
Both of them sat silent on the moss-covered rock in the slant of sunlight through the old pines and thought how many tiny chances had conspired to bring them to this place. Each of those chances might have gone a different way.
~ Philip Pullman
Eventually, child, you will come to the land of the dead with no effort, no risk, a safe, calm journey, in the company of your own death, your special, devoted friend, who's been beside you every moment of your life, who knows you better than yourself.
~ Philip Pullman
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
~ Philip Pullman
Hepimiz kadere tabiyiz, ama hepimiz sanki deÄŸilmiÅŸiz gibi hareket etmeliyiz. dedi Cad?. Yoksa umutsuzluktan ölürüz.
~ Philip Pullman
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.
~ Philip Pullman
If a witch offers you her love,you should take it. If you don't it's your own fault if bad things happen to you...
~ Philip Pullman
She is the goddess of the dead. She comes to you smiling and kindly, and you know it is time to die.
~ Philip Pullman
I will love you forever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I'll drift about for ever, all my atoms, till I find you again...
~ Philip Pullman
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all...choices existed at once. But to keep them in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
~ Philip Pullman
They both sat silent on the moss-covered rock, in the slant of sunlight through the old pines, and thought how many tiny chances had conspired to bring them to this place. Each of those chances might have gone a different way.
~ Philip Pullman
We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if were are not, said the witch, or die of despair.
~ Philip Pullman
We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not," said the witch, "or die of despair
~ Philip Pullman
Tutti siamo soggetti al fato. Però tutti dobbiamo agire come se non lo fossimo. O morire di disperazione.
~ Philip Pullman
You speak of destiny as if it was fixed. And I ain't sure I like that any more than a war I'm enlisted in without knowing about it. Where's my free will, if you please?
~ Philip Pullman
Algunas historias son así. Cuando se les ha dado cuerda, nada las detiene; avanzan hasta alcanzar el final previsto. Aunque los personajes deseen con todas sus fuerzas modificar su destino, son incapaces de hacerlo.
~ Philip Pullman
then?" Tialys asked Will. "What then? Well
~ Philip Pullman
Your death taps you on the shoulder, or takes your hand, and says, come along o' me, it's time. It might happen when you're sick with a fever, or when you choke on a piece of dry bread, or when you fall off a high building; in the middle of your pain and travail, your death comes to you kindly and says easy now, easy, child, you come along o' me, and you go with them in a boat out across the lake into the mist. What happens there, no one knows. No one's ever come back.
~ Philip Pullman