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Quotes About Fate

eventually these encounters forced him to acknowledge the reality of fate, and the truth inherent in things of the imagination.
~ Denis Johnson
Survival was a breeze that touched some and not others. Neither hope nor hopelessness had anything to do with it.
~ Denis Johnson
You have to see fate as a design, a pattern, and the will as the knife, the blade, the thing slicing through the fabric...
~ Denis Johnson
A child, I'm miserable admitting it, a child stands like a priest under his father's sky. Why do you fate me to fail you?
~ Denis Johnson
Gladys had seen all of this, and she made it his to know. She'd lost her future to death, and lost her child to life.
~ Denis Johnson
Because we all believed we were tragic, and we drank. We had that helpless, destined feeling.
~ Denis Johnson
What you put out into the world will always come back for you.
~ Dennis Lehane
He thought: so this is what it feels like to love. No logic to it - he barely knew her. But there it was just the same. He'd just met the woman he'd known, somehow, since before he was born. The measure of every dream he'd never dared indulge.
~ Dennis Lehane
Lui avrebbe voluto chiederle che rumore fa un cuore quando si rompe per la gioia, quando è sufficiente la vista di qualcuno per riempirti come né il cibo, né il sangue, né l'aria potranno mai fare; quando ti senti come se fossi nato per vivere un momento preciso e quel momento, per qualche ragione particolare, era proprio quello.
~ Dennis Lehane
Hiç küçük bir tercihin tüm hayat?n? nas?l deÄŸiÅŸtirebileceÄŸini düÅŸündün mü?
~ Dennis Lehane
Maybe I'd move to Tibet, climb a mountain with the Dalai Lama or head to Paris and wear nothing but black, grow myself a keen goatee and talk about jazz all the time. Or maybe I'd do what I always do - hang out and see what develops. Fatalist to the core.
~ Dennis Lehane
Brendan looked at the card. He kept his eyes on it when he said, "I loved her so much. I…I ain't ever going to feel that again. I mean, it don't happen twice, right?" He looked up at Whitey and Sean. His eyes were dry, but the pain in them was something Sean wanted to duck from. "It don't happen once, most cases," Whitey said.
~ Dennis Lehane
Shit happens. It is what it is. Whatta ya gonna do.
~ Dennis Lehane
It took only a second for another to arrive on the same path as yours and change your life to a point it couldn't change back. One second.
~ Dennis Lehane
Pazzesco. -A cosa si riferisce? -Al luogo in cui è finita. Secondo la mia opinione. -Be', certo. Almeno questo credo che possiamo prenderlo come un dato di fatto.
~ Dennis Lehane
We are all, as ever, the playthings of the Gods, and none of us can say what our tomorrows may bring;
~ Unknown
I knew it the first time I saw you. I don't completely understand our connection myself, but it's real. And it means something." He's talking fast, leaning in toward me. "It means everything .
~ Unknown
A victim is in a position of weakness and subject to the whims of others. Heroes are people who determine their own fate and their own future. A victim had nothing to give and no choice to make. A hero has the strength and ability to be generous and forgiving and the power and freedom that come from being able to make the choice of forgiveness.
~ Desmond Tutu
When I asked my Da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself, 'Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weighs as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman
~ Diana Gabaldon
Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion -- and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder...
~ Diana Gabaldon
I was born for you -Claire Fraser, Outlander
~ Diana Gabaldon
I could feel the hair rising on my forearms, as though with cold, and rubbed them uneasily. Two hundred years. From 1945 to 1743; yes, near enough. And women who traveled through the rocks. Was it always women? I wondered suddenly.
~ Diana Gabaldon
She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition.
~ Diana Gabaldon
but there came a point when one abandoned hope for faith, and trusted fate for charity.
~ Diana Gabaldon