Quotes About Fate

João Gostoso era carregador de feira livre e morava no morro da Babilônia num barracão sem número Uma noite ele chegou no bar Vinte de Novembro Bebeu Cantou Dançou Depois se atirou na lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas e morreu afogado.

Nature allows us no choice but to suffer the consequences of our actions.

Dearest . . . I am writing you once more now, night . . . brings a silence that helps me talk to you, and I wonder . . . could you be remembering too, sad dreams . . . of this strange love affair. My dear . . . although life may never let us meet again, and we—because of fate—must always live apart . . . I swear, this heart of mine will be always yours . . . my thoughts, my whole life, forever yours . . . just as this pain . . . belongs . . . to you . . .

On the whole, it is less the sequence of ages that holds his attention than the general feeling of a kind of fatality:

Thus in the plural use of the word "age" there is an element of optimism, in sharp contrast to its use in the singular, which identifies it with an inevitability, a fate with no future

para se dar um belo encontro têm de ser as pessoas certas e o momento certo.

M?t ai Ä'ó ta yêu thÆ°Æ¡ng là Ä'i?u th?t khinh kh?ng, nhÆ°ng Ä'i?u t? nh?t là chÆ°a bao gi? g?p ???c má»™t ai nhÆ° th?.

I verkligheten har vi bara ett val, ta chansen eller missa den.

Ella ha vuelto, está ahí. En algún lugar sobre la tierra, le espera y le busca. Desde ahora, el tiempo cuenta para los dos. Si renuncian el uno al otro será mucho peor que malgastar sus vidas, será la extinción de sus almas.

El fin de sus dos viajes sería una terrible desgracia, pues están ustedes muy cerca del final. Cuando se reconozcan, no pasen de largo el uno frente al otro.

Je me suis toujours étonné de la concjonction de petites choses qui décident du cours de votre vie. Personne ne voit les pièces de puzzle qui s'assemblent, inéluctablement, et qui conduiront à un bouleversement.

Ton avenir est fait de choix qui t'appartiennent.

But what really sealed Britain's fate were similar attacks on the other side of the empire.

Ah, yes, it's the Soubeyrans...Three mad, three hanged, and me all alone with a no-good leg....And nobody after me...Nobody, nobody, nobody...

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable.

Maybe it is nothingness that is real and our entire dream is nonexistent, but in that case we feel that these phrases of music, and these notions that exist in relation to our dream, must also be nothing. We will perish, but we have for hostages these divine captives who will follow us and share our fate. And death in their company is less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps less probable.

Thanks to the gods! My misfortune exceeds my hopes.41

Una certa somiglianza esiste, pur evolvendosi, fra le donne che via via amiamo, e dipende dalla fissità del nostro temperamento il quale, assumendosi l'incarico di sceglierle, elimina tutte quelle che non siano per noi, ad un tempo, opposte e complementari, vale a dire atte a soddisfare i nostri sensi e a far soffrire il nostro cuore.

He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity;

I made him just and right, sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

All is best, though we oft doubt, what the unsearchable dispose, of highest wisdom brings about.

But past who can recall, or don undoe? Not God Omnipotent, nor Fate

Fortunately wrong cannot last. Soon or late it must fall back home to Hades, while some compensating good must surely follow.