Quotes About Fate

Uno, non toccare le lancette. Due, domina la rabbia. Tre, non innamorarti mai è poi mai. Altrimenti, nell'orologio del tuo cuore, la grande lancetta delle ore ti trafiggerà per sempre la pelle, le tue ossa si frantumeranno e la meccanica del cuore andrà di nuovo in pezzi

Je suis en danger de mort? Peut-être, mais je suis en danger de vie si je ne la revois pas, et, à mon âge, je trouve ça encore plus grave.

Every one is the architect of his own fortune.

Quién conoce, cuando se despierta, que aquél va a ser el día de su muerte?

La muerte, que a todos nos pone cerco desde el nacimiento, sólo es un trance, un suceso que puede propiciarse sin remilgos

Morpheus Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.

Chance is providence in a cloak.

Courage is the spear of destiny.

Providence turns the wheels of destiny.

Your talents determine what you should do; your character, where you end up.

It was so easy. A slight curl of his right pointer finger and a man's life was gone forever.

You can choose choices but not outcomes.

Well, that you can choose choices but not outcomes.

You can't choose where you are born, you can't decide who won't leave you, you can't choose much. A life has unchangeable tides the same as history does. But there is still room inside it for choice. For decisions.

It is hard to predict, isn't it?' she asked, looking blankly in front of her as she moved a black bishop across the board to take a white pawn. 'The things that will make us happy'.

You make the wrong decision in the present and it haunts you, just as the Treaty of Versaillles in nineteen nineteen sowed the ground for Hitler to take power in nineteen thirty-three, so every present moment is paying for a future one. Just one wrong turn can get you very lost. What you do in the present stays with you. It comes back. You don't get away with anything.

Well, that's the beauty, isn't it? You just never know how it ends.

Camus also said, 'If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there'?

She understands enough of what is going on. She understands that he wants to save her, more than anything in the world. She understands what he understands, that if only he could save her, he could save himself. She understands also that she loves him, and as she stays inside his helpless stare, she knows that fate is something she has to steer herself.

in the cosmic order of things. There is no rejection, there is only redirection.

You simply can't fall in love and not think there is something bigger ruling us. Something, you know, not quite us. Something that lives inside us, caged in us, ready to help us or fuck us over. We are mysteries to ourselves. Even science knows that.

When there is nothing we can do about something, the point of worry begins to diminish. "Everybody dies," wrote Nora Ephron." There's nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day.

Being aware that everything that could possibly happen happened to her somewhere, in some life, kind of absolved her a little from decisions.

I think it is easy to imagine there are easier paths,' she said, realising something for the first time. 'But maybe there are no easy paths. There are just paths. In one life, I might be married. In another, I might be working in a shop. I might have said yes to this cute guy who asked me out for a coffee. In another I might be researching