Quotes About Fate

I am pleased with defeat because it has occurred, because it is irrevocably united to all those events which are, which were, and which will be, because to censure or to deplore a single real occurrence is to blaspheme the universe.

Omul ajunge s? se confunde, treptat, cu forma destinului s?u; cu vremea, el se suprapune circumstan?elor vie?ii sale.

Me creo indigno del Infierno o de la Gloria, pero nada predigo.

El Destino (tal es el nombre que aplicamos a la infinita operación incesante de millares de causas entreveradas) no lo resolvió así.

Perfilados bien por un fondo de paredes celestes o de cielo alto, dos compadritos envainados en seria ropa negra bailan sobre zapatos de mujer un baile gravísimo, que es el de los cuchillos parejos, haste que de una oreja salta un clavel porque el cuchillo ha entrado en un hombre, que cierra con su muerte horizontal el baile sin música.

cominciò a comprendere. Comprese che un destino non è migliore d'un altro, ma che ogni uomo deve compiere quello che porta in se.

Dios totalmente se hizo hombre hasta la infamia, hombre hasta la reprobación y el abismo. Para salvarnos, pudo elegir cualquiera de los destinos que traman la perpleja red de la historia; pudo ser Alejandro o Pitágoras o Rurik o Jesús; eligió un ínfimo destino: fue judas.

Todo encuentro casual era una cita

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.

What bitter slavishness, that of my face, that of one of my former faces. This odious fate reserved for my features must perforce make me odious too, but I no longer care.

Dios mueve al jugador, y éste, la pieza. ¿Qué Dios detrás de Dios la trama empieza de polvo y tiempo y sueño y agonía?

He realized that one destiny is no better than the next and that every man must accept the destiny he bears inside himself.

En la ventana estaban los tejados de siempre y el sol nublado de las seis. Me pareció increíble que ese día sin premoniciones ni símbolos fuera el de mi muerte implacable.

La imagen que un solo hombre puede formar es la que no toca a ninguno. Infinitas cosas hay en la tierra; cualquiera puede equipararse a cualquiera. Equiparar estrellas con hojas no es menos arbitrario que equipararlas con peces o con pájaros. En cambio, nadie no sintió nunca alguna vez que el destino es fuerte y es torpe, que es inocente y es también inhumano.

L'esecutore di un'impresa atroce immagini di averla già compiuta, si imponga un futuro che sia irrevocabile come il passato

And geography blended with time equals destiny.

For in a real tragedy, it is not the hero who perishes; it is the chorus.

A word's fate depends on the variety of its contexts, on the frequency of its usage.

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

Love thine enemies because they are the instruments of your destiny.

There is an important idea in Nietzsche, of Amor fati , the love of your fate, which is in fact your life. As he says, if you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unravelled the whole thing. Furthermore, the more challenging or threatening the situation or context to be assimilated and affirmed, the greater the stature of the person who can achieve it. The demon you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.

Since you came to birth in this world at this time, in this place, and with this particular destiny, it was this indeed that you wanted and required for your own ultimate illumination. That was a great big wonderful thing that you thereupon brought to pass: not the you of course, that you now suppose yourself to be, but the you that was already there before you were born. You are not now to lose your nerve! Go on through with it and play your own game all the way!

Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt: "The Fates lead him who will; him who won't, they drag.