Quotes About Fate

Nossa divindade, a história, reservou-nos um túmulo, de onde não há ressurreição.

It's choice – not chance – that determines your destiny. " ?Jean Nidetch

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. ~ Marcus Aurelius

But if there was anything Martha had come to understand about life, it was that people didn't get to choose their tragedy. Tragedy chose its people.

Does real love appear as a choice? Or does it arrive, inevitable, irresistible?

The moment will come, as surely as we breathe, when opportunity will disappear. Then, and only then, will we realize what we have lost.

Yet we can look at other people and, more or less, see the inadequacy of our ideological individuality. We often point out that someone "was born a bad seed and was going to turn out rotten no matter what," or someone "was destined to triumph and succeed." In fact, "it's in the stars" is still used, even though in modern intellectual circles the concepts of Fate and Destiny are

Fate hovers into sight and becomes obvious; and then it is sometimes much too late to do anything about it. Often someone's direct-sensing systems

Il tuo destino ha fatto molto scalpore a Costanza. Non vi era persona alla quale io chiedessi che non sapesse darmi una risposta.

That's what's most frightening. You can live your life in the best way, the most moral way possible, and it doesn't make any difference. A madman chooses you at random and takes away everything. It's not fair.

May you get to Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you're dead.

Aye Oedipus, yir a complex fucker right enough

There are people in this world who are doomed to die, and there are people who have not yet begun to live.

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.

We have to believe in free will. Weve got no choice.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.

God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and everywhere, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being necessarily existing.

There is somewhere someone who will feel lucky knowing you. And if lucky enough, loving you.

El mundo se dirige hacia la tumba como la noche hacia el alba.

We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

That old saying which the peasants call the bachelors' prayer: "I pray thee, good Lord, that I may not be married. But if I am to be married, that I may not be a cuckold. But if I am to be a cuckold, that I may not know. But if I am to know, that I may not mind."

Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.