Quotes About Fate

If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.

This is how things come to pass in the world,' one of the princes is supposed to have said. 'Blood flows one way in life and another way in song, and one never knows which flow is the right one.

It struck me suddenly that rather than spending my time worrying about my destined quest, I should simply live and trust in the fates to bring me where I was needed.

It would be a simple matter if lives were lived by hindsight. There is much we would not begin, if we could see how it would end

We are the gods of poverty, but why should we be ashamed in front of those gods of good fortune? We and they, all of us, have our own fates. Not only that, but while they are on friendly terms with emperors, aristocrats, feudal lords, the privileged class and, yes, wealthy townspeople, and provide them with different kinds of luxury and splendor, they're not intimate with men of virtue at all.

When you leave things to Heaven, but have not done everything you could in human affairs, you will not have understood Heaven's Way. You will just be waiting for things to happen of their own accord, and this is called entrusting things to fate. For the moment, however, it could be said that if you are confused and unsettled, you should go ahead and leave things to fate.

When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.

After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

So began their love, the boy happy and amazed, she happy and not surprised at all (nothing happens by chance to girls). It was the love so long awaited by Cosimo and which had now inexplicably arrived, and so lovely that he could not imagine how he had even thought it lovely before. And the thing newest to him was that it was so simple, and the boy at that moment thought it must be like that always.

Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end only in two ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and the heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.

Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end only in tow ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and the heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

Certainly from then on our mother changed; her earlier apprehension disappeared, and even if her fate as a mother was different from that of others, with a son so strange, lost to the usual life of the affections, she finally accepted Cosimo's strangeness before the rest of us, as if she were satisfied now by the greetings that from then on he sent her every so often, unpredictably --by that exchange of silent messages.

Bütün öykülerin ana fikrinin iki çehresi vard?r: hayat?n devam?; ölümün kaç?n?lmazl???.

Essa subito decise, perché afferrò la mia mano per trattenermi più sicuramente e mi fece entrare. L'emozione m'oscurò la vista e ritengo sia stata provocata non tanto dal dolce contatto di quella mano, ma da quella familiarità che mi parve decidesse del mio e del destino di Augusta. Perciò credo di essere entrato con qualche riluttanza e, quando rievoco la storia del mio primo tradimento, ho il sentimento di averlo compiuto perché trascinatovi.

Kdybych si mohl vybrat, pak bych se nenarodil. Ale když to už musí být, pak se chci s tím osudem smí?it a být š?astný.

Twelve years old was awfully early to meet up with what inevitability does to possibility.

You all have a universally fatal condition. It's called pre-death.

In days of doubt, in days of sad brooding on my country's fate, thou alone art my rod and my staff—mighty, true, free Russian speech! But for thee, how not to fall into despair, seeing all that happens at home? Yet who can think that such a tongue is not given to a great people?

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.