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Quotes About Fate

We have made the perilous journey through the caves to see the princess Cimorene, newly come to these caverns, to comfort her and together bemoan our sad and sorry fate," the first princess said haughtily. "Tell her we are here." "I'm Cimorene," Cimorene said. "I don't need comforting, and I'm not particularly sad or sorry to be here, but if you'd like to come in and have some tea, you're welcome.
~ Unknown
It seems I am fated always to be wading through the shite, thought Becket a few hours later, coughing and trying not to breathe through his nose. Before him stretched a foul plain down to the Thames mudflats, lined with long dykes. The nearest steamed gently before him: a dunghill of magnificent, epic size. Stench of piss and shit many weeks old was making the air blue above them and the number of different mephitic and disease-laden odours hardly bore thinking about.
~ Unknown
Life is a journey. A hopeless cliché. But not its fault. Cliché is the fate of every fully absorbed truth. The stars, for example, do look like diamonds. You just can't say so.
~ Patricia Hampl
Things happen, Jacob," I heard Sarah say. "The rope broke. I could have died." "Don't, Sarah," said Papa. "You could have lost me, Jacob," said Sarah. "And that's the way life is. Something happens . . . one little moment in time. If you're lucky, you have a chance to make things better. You have that chance here. Don't let it pass.
~ Patricia MacLachlan
I ask Ama why. "Why," I say, "must women suffer so?" "This has always been our fate," she says. "Simply to endure," she says, "is to triumph.
~ Patricia McCormick
This has always been our fate," she says. "Simply to endure," she says, "is to triumph.
~ Patricia McCormick
Me agrada pensar que estoy, aunque sólo sea un poco, al mando de mi destino.
~ Patricia Ryan
The Grim Reaper doesn't disappear... he catches up.
~ Patrick Carman
La nuit avance ainsi, dans l'hécatombe des héroïsmes et le hasard des survivances.
~ Unknown
I am master of my fate," proclaims the proud man. Yet he does not see that he cannot number his days, neither can he make one hair black or white. His wrinkles come in, his teeth go out, and time will bend him ever downward. His brokenness grows as he fashions his Ebenezer-like chains, a link at a time. He does not see or perceive that Jesus would melt all those links away, if he would only believe.
~ Unknown
There was not even any hope for Miss Roach that Mr. Thwaites would ever die.
~ Patrick Hamilton
Destiny is the inner meaning of chance.
~ Unknown
Aveva perso il controllo. Non si controlla un innamoramento, mi disse, non è possibile. E la divertiva che fosse potuto accadere in questo modo, con quest'uomo. Un paziente. Un paziente che lavorava nell'orto. Stella, le dissi, non potevi fare una scelta più scriteriata. La verità, mi rispose, è che non ho scelto affatto.
~ Unknown
Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose.
~ Unknown
What a peculiar path I've had to take in order to reach you.
~ Patrick Modiano
J'ai toujours cru que certains endroits sont des aimants et que vous êtes attirés vers eux si vous marchez dans leurs parages.
~ Patrick Modiano
Siempre he creído que hay lugares que son imanes y te atraen si pasas por las inmediaciones. Y eso de forma imperceptible, sin que te lo malicies siquiera. Basta con una calle en cuesta, con una acera al sol, o con una acera a la sombra. O con un chaparrón. Y te llevan a ese lugar, al punto preciso en el que debías encallar.
~ Patrick Modiano
Parfois, le cœur se serre à la pensée des choses qui auraient pu être et qui n'ont pas été.
~ Patrick Modiano
Existen casualidades, encuentros y coincidencias que se ignorarán siempre…
~ Patrick Modiano
Rành là m?i s? ??u k?t thúc trong nh?ng h?p ??ng sô cô la ho?c bích quy. Ho?c xì gà.
~ Patrick Modiano
Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
~ Patrick Ness
Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers' daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.
~ Patrick Ness
He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
~ Patrick Ness
If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?
~ Patrick Ness