Quotes About Fate

Merk dies allein: nicht eine einzige Stunde kommt zweimal im Leben, Nicht ein Wort, nicht eines Blickes Ungreifbares Nichts ist je Ungeschehn zu machen, was Du getan hast, mußt du tragen, So das Lächeln wie den Mord!

If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.

I am a very 'unvoracious' reader, and since I can seldom bring myself to read a work twice I think of the many things that I read – too soon! Nothing, not even a (possible) deeper appreciation, for me replaces the bloom on a book, the freshness of the unread. Still what we read and when goes, like the people we meet, by 'fate.' Letter 189 From a letter to Mrs M. Wilson

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

So it is official. Life is meaningless. The intellectuals have debated it, and produced conclusions that your feeble brain cannot understand, but only accepts. If only your were smarter, then maybe you would grasp the logical reasons underlining the inevitable pointlessness of existence, but all you can do now is accept your fate.

HB: So why does a person get involved with someone who's entirely wrong for him? NG: I think the answer, quite simply, is that you don't always get to decide to whom you give your heart.

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

The bomb lives only as it is falling.

There were few better ways of knocking the fight out of people than by convincing them that life was a joke, a contrivance under somebody else's ultimate control, and nothing of what they thought or did really mattered.

Geography is destiny. – James Ellroy

All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.

But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'.

In each case the individuals made history-although,to adapt the thought of Karl Marx,not under circumstances of their choosing

The universe does not owe us our desires, but it may grant a good question.

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.

Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the mattress. Yes," I said. "I think it was. Certainly, it's written that way. The end of the book is there before the beginning's hardly started.

To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.

Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He's after food, and death is after him. (Saadi)

Dicho del Profeta Quienquiera que injurie a su hermano por un pecado, no morirá antes de haberlo cometido él mismo

Las personas de este mundo tienen un destino fijado. Pero quien está desarrollado espiritualmente recibe lo que 'no' está en su destino.

Han fijado nuestra nutrición y dispuesto la duración de nuestras vidas. Más que esto,y más allá de esto,los esfuerzos no serán productivos.

La gente del mundo tiene un destino prefijado. Pero quien está desarrollado espiritualmente recibe lo que 'no' está en su destino.

The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is "not" in their destiny.

A pesar de lo rápido que corras, o lo hábil que seas, no podrás huir de tus propios pies