Quotes About Fate

Es evidente que Dios me concedió un destino oscuro. Ni siquiera cruel. Simplemente oscuro. Es evidente que me concedió una tregua. Al principio, me resistí a creer que eso pudiera ser la felicidad. Me resistí con todas mis fuerzas, después me di por vencido y lo creí. Pero no era la felicidad, era sólo una tregua. Ahora estoy otra vez metido en mi destino. Y es más oscuro que antes, mucho más.

Entonces? Acaso Dios tenga un rostro de croupier y yo sólo sea un pobre diablo que juega a rojo cuando sale negro, y viceversa.

La única felicidad que parece posible no es tan sólo la que no se cumple, sino la que nunca podría haberse cumplido

Tenemos que apurarnos hacia el encuentro, porque en nuestro caso el futuro es un inevitable desencuentro.

De pormenor en pormenor vamos descubriendo el exterior y la intimidad, digamos el milímetro de universo que nos tocó en suerte. Y sólo entonces, cuando encontramos al muchacho o al vejestorio que lleva nuestro nombre, sólo entonces los pormenores suelen convertirse en pormayores.

No hay que prometer nada porque las promesas son horribles ataduras, y cuando uno se siente amarrado tiende a liberarse, eso es fatal».

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

Will you walk the road to your destiny, or must the Gods drag you to it unwilling?

If you seek to avoid your fate or to delay suffering, it only condemns you to suffer it redoubled in another life.

My life - my real life - started when a man walked into it, a handsome stranger in a perfectly cut suit, and, yes I know how that sounds.

More often than not, superstition wins the day as it lifts the burden of responsibility off human shoulders and places it squarely on the much stronger ones of magic.

It's not fair." "It's not. But then, that's the game. It makes life great. The fact that it ends when we don't want it to. The ending gives it meaning.

Snaaks, het sy dikwels daarna gedink, hoe 'n mens sulke lewensveranderende besluite sommer so op die ingewing van die oomblik kan neem. Grinnikend oor 'n glas wyn. Want jy weet nie wat die werklik belangrike besluite in jou lewe is terwyl jy hulle neem nie. Eers later, wanneer jy terugkyk, besef jy dat alles anders sou uitgewerk het as jy dáár anders besluit het. Of dalk nie.

Perhaps all men were moved against their will. A man ordered his life, and then an obscurity of circumstance sent him down a road that was not of his own desire or choosing. Something beyond a man's immediate choice and will reached through the earth and stirred him. He did not see how any man might escape it.

Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.

I met his gaze, but nothing else needed to be said. We both knew we were fucked.

A mystery. Love strikes where it will, not where you will it.

Bad timing can be as calamitous as good timing is fortuitous.

Yo no creo en las coincidencias; creo en la providencia.

It's not science fiction; it's fact. It's not a script; it's Scripture. It's not an accident; it's a divine appointment. Can I make a simple observation? Notice who's next to you! What you think is a seat assignment might be a divine assignment. The person two inches away may change your destiny, or you might change theirs!

Destiny is not a mystery. For better or worse, your destiny is the result of your daily decisions and defining decisions.

I don't believe in coincidence. I believe in providence.