Quotes About Fate

Un día que habían salvado contra su voluntad a una viuda que se había arrojado al agua, mi abuela me había dicho (movida acaso por uno de esos presentimientos que leemos a veces en el misterio, tan oscuro, sin embargo, de nuestra vida orgánica, pero en que parece como que se refleja lo por venir) que no conocía crueldad semejante a la de arrancar a una desesperada a la muerte que ella misma ha querido y devolverla a su martirio.

This is the feeling that death does not descend upon all men alike, but that a more oncoming wave of its tragic tide carries off a life placed at the same level as others which the waves that follow will long continue to spare.

The things one tries hardest to avoid are what one finds one cannot escape,

Umutsuzlu?a kap?lmak için, art?k ancak bedbaht olabilecek bu hayata ba?l? olmam?z gerekir.

We shall perish, but we have for our hostages these divine captives who shall follow and share our fate. And death in their company is something less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less certain.

Our desires cut across one another's paths, and in this confused existence it is but rarely that a piece of good fortune coincides with the desire that clamoured for it.

And Monelle said again: I pity you, I pity you, my love. Even so, I shall return to the night; for it is necessary that you lose me before you find me again. And if you find me again, I shall elude you once more. For I am she who is alone. And Monelle said again: Because I am alone, you shall give me the name Monelle. But you shall imagine that I have every other name.

A lungo andare ogni speranza si consuma e si spegne; ma perché non dovrebbe accadere la stessa cosa alla disperazione? Finite le speranze, poi finiranno pure le disperazioni.

Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting.

Victrix causa deis placuit sed Victa Caton.

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

No man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.

Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.

Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Whatever happens it all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Some of us seem to accept the fatalist position, the fatalist attitude, that God accorded to us a certain position and condition, and therefore there is no need trying to be otherwise. The moment you accept such an attitude, the moment you accept such an opinion, the moment you harbor such an idea, you hurl an insult at the great God who created you, because you question Him for His love, you question Him for His mercy.

What was the phrase the Irish used? You want to make God laugh, you make a plan.

And if I really can see the future, then what does it mean? Is there any sense in our lives if everything is already out there, just waiting to happen? For if that were so, then life would be a horrible monster indeed, with no chance of escape from fate, from destiny. It would be like reading a book, but reading it backwards, from the final chapter down to chapter one, so that the end is already known to you.

If I can see the future, then what does that mean? It would be like knowing the end of a story right from the start, almost as if you were reading it backwards. And who wants to know how their own story ends?