Quotes About Fate

Such will in the latter days of the earth, be the last generation of mortals, when child-bearing shall have ceased, when youth shall no more be seen, nor any arise to replace those who shall await their fate in silence.

do we not all aspire after that which conducts us to the grave—

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

random outcomes of contingent fate in an arbitrary and uncaring universe.

The tale of someone's life begins before they are born.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.

În via?? se poate întâmpla orice, ÅŸi mai ales nimic.

You really can't do anything about people's lives, I said to myself, neither friendship nor compassion nor the intelligence of the situations is of any use: people manufacture the mechanism of their own misfortune, they wind it right up and the mechanism goes on turning

Chacun d'entre nous a beau avoir une certaine capacité de résistance on finit tous par mourir d'amour, ou plutôt d'absence d'amour, c'est au bout du compte inéluctablement mortel.

Considérant les événement présent de notre vie, nous oscillons sans cesse entre la croyance au hasard et l'évidence du déterminisme.

Tout peut arriver dans la vie, et surtout rien.

Quand viendra la mort ?

Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.

the path that those girls made us take was entirely fallacious, I should add that it was raining', as Nerval probably wrote somewhere; I hadn't often thought about Nerval lately, but he had hanged himself at the age of forty-six, and Baudelaire too had died at that age; it isn't an easy one.

The physical bodies of young people, the only desirable possession the world has ever produced, were reserved for the exclusive use of the young, and the fate of the old was to work and to suffer.

people manufacture the mechanism of their own misfortune, they wind it right up and the mechanism goes on turning, ineluctably, with the odd mistake, a few errors when there's sickness in the mix, but it goes on turning to the end, to the final second.

But the past always seems, perhaps wrongly, to be predestined.

Notre malheur n'atteint son plus haut point que lorsque a été envisagée, suffisamment proche, la possibilité pratique du bonheur.

Al considerar los acontecimientos presentes de nuestra vida, oscilamos constantemente entre la fe en el azar y la evidencia del determinismo. Sin embargo, cuando se trata del pasado, no tenemos la menor duda: nos parece obvio que todo ha ocurrido del modo en que, efectivamente, tenía que ocurrir

So it's true, then, being in love is like hitting the sweepstakes. It doesn't happen to everyone, and there's no way of saying who's going to win, but it changes your life when it does.

You should have died

In Rome, Matt had told her, 'I knew that if I kept up my playing, we would have a baby.' That was what music represented to him now: a bargain he had sought with fate. In a less anaemic age, he would have sacrificed virgins or immaculate lambs.

Threw a spade and got a heart.