Quotes About Fate

Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.

in accordance with the primitive arrangement of things, the most trifling causes produce the greatest events, and the grandest undertakings end in the most insignificant results.

And for long years to come I am destined by some strange fate to walk hand in hand with my odd heroes, to gaze at life in its vast movement, to gaze upon it through laughter seen by the world and tears unseen and unknown by it!

But, in accordance with the primitive arrangement of things, the most trifling causes produce the greatest events, and the grandest undertakings end in the most insignificant results.

I brought you into this world. It is on me to take it away.

How strangely, how inconceivably our fate plays with us! Do we ever get what we desire? Do we ever achieve that for which our powers seem purposely to prepare us? Everything happens in a contrary way. To this one fate gave wonderful horses, and he drives around indifferently without ever noticing their beauty—while another, whose heart burns with the horse passion, goes on foot and contents himself with merely clicking his tongue as a trotter is led past him.

They christened the child, whereat he wept and made a grimace, as though he foresaw that he was to be a titular councillor. In

De que modo estranho e incompreensível o destino brinca connosco! Será que alguma vez alcançamos aquilo que almejamos? Será que conseguimos aquilo que, parece, as nossas forças foram expressamente preparadas? Tudo se passa ao contrário.

One can get very used to the life of nobility if fates allow, but the first order of business is for one to rely on himself.

And for a long time yet, led by some wondrous power, I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.

At last; something must kill a man.

Don't fade your faith in my fate.

Dead pirates didn't get to spend their booty. Dead pirates didn't get to shake their booty, either. Bummer.

È il destino che gentilmente abbassa il predellino della sua antiquata carrozza e mi tende la mano per aiutarmi a salire, ma a pensarci, e a pensarci seriamente, si arrivava a uno sciocco calembour: il destino mi tende il piede, mi fa lo sgambetto per atterrarmi, per mettermi al tappeto... A volte mi dicevo persino: forse hai pensato troppo in tutta la tua vita. Gli altri non pensano e vivono felici.

Do not tempt fate by saying never. Never again this, never again that—for you can never be sure of never and that's the only thing you can be sure of.

Better to exist without destiny, only to exist.

My birth was just an incident but my death will not go unnoticed

Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked.

You kissed me because you were awfully nice and I was awfully nice and we both liked kissing very much. It was inevitable.

People have died from hiccups, you know.

Why is it, Master," he asked bitterly, "that despite all a physician is able to do, he is as a leaf before the wind, and the real power lies only with Allah?

Everyone has their own path. The choices they've made. How any two people end up in the same place at the same time is a mystery. You get on an elevator with a dozen strangers. You ride a bus, wait in line for the bathroom. It happens every day. To try to predict the places we'll go and the people we'll meet would be pointless.

Everyone has their path. The choices they've made. How any two people end up in the same place at the same time is a mystery. You get on an elevator with a dozen strangers. You ride a bus, wait in line for the bathroom. It happens every day. To try to predict the places we'll go and the people we'll meet would be pointless.