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Quotes About Fate

DORO DISCOVERED THE WOMAN by accident when he went to see what was left of one of his seed villages.
~ Octavia E. Butler
What does it mean if you're damned lucky to live in a cul-de-sac with a wall around it?
~ Octavia E. Butler
que busca? Tal vez busca su destino. Tal vez su destino es buscar. ...what is he searching for? Perhaps he searches for his destiny. Perhaps his destiny is to search.
~ Octavio Paz
Dime cómo mueres y te diré quien eres.
~ Octavio Paz
I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.
~ Ofra Haza
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.
~ Og Mandino
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
~ Og Mandino
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
~ Ogden Nash
either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow
~ Ogden Nash
May you get what you wish for.
~ Unknown
By going together we would at least be assured a common fate. In the future, as in the past, my place would be at my husband's side.
~ Unknown
I find this division of people into three groups—skiers, allergy sufferers and drivers—very convincing. It is a good, straightforward typology. Skiers are hedonists. They are carried down the slopes. Whereas drivers prefer to take their fate in their hands, although their spines often suffer as a result; we all know life is hard. Whereas the allergy sufferers are always at war. I must surely be an allergy sufferer.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
I know the date of my own death, and that lets me feel free.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Many times Annushka had tried to barter with anyone she could, with God, with the Virgin, with Saint Parascheva, with the whole iconostasis, even with the closer, vaguer realm of fate.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Dear brothers, we give you the right to choose your death.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
It has to do instead with the presentiment men have at every moment of their lives, a foreboding adamantly hushed and hidden—that left to their own devices, in the dull, quiet company of passing time, they would atrophy faster. As though they'd been designed for a brief spurt of intensity, a high-stakes race, a triumph and, immediately afterward, exhaustion
~ Olga Tokarczuk
And what a stroke of luck that such a book had fallen into the hands of such a person in such a place.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
I think we all feel great ambivalence at the sight of our own Horoscope. On the one hand we're proud to see that the sky is imprinted on our individual life, like a postmark with a date stamped on a letter – this makes it distinct, one of a kind. But at the same time it's a form of imprisonment in space, like a tattooed prison number. There's no escaping it. I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Every Night & every Morn Some to Misery are Born Every Morn & every Night Some are Born to sweet delight, Some are born to Endless Night.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
The same fate awaits me too, and Oddball, and the Deer outside; one day we shall all be nothing more than corpses.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Jedni przychodz? na ?wiat na górze, w s?onecznych rejonach, inni na dole, bez ?wiat?a ludzkie grzyby. Wszystko zdarza si? tylko raz i my sami jeste?my jednorazowi. Nie by?o nas, zanim si? urodzili?my, i nie b?dzie nas jak umrzemy. Raj- to cyfrowy sen. Nikt nas nie wybawi, nie naprawi, nie zado??uczyni. Ka?dego dnia stajemy si? jeszcze bardziej bezradni
~ Olga Tokarczuk
The man recover'd of the bite,The dog it was that died.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Only the young die good.
~ Oliver Herford
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
~ Unknown