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Quotes About Fate

Simply, this is what she believed: she believed that the universe showed each of us certain things, that it made certain things open. Many people lived a peace life with nothing ever happening to them. But into some families other things fell. Some families were afflicted with random tragedies - car accidents, plane accidents, hang gliding accidents, bus crashes, knifing, drownings, scarves getting caught under the wheels of their Rolls Royces, breaking their necks.
~ Paullina Simons
Me estuviste buscando?», le había preguntado Tatiana una vez, y él había contestado: «Toda la vida».
~ Paullina Simons
A good man has as much chance of dying as a bad one. Maybe more so.
~ Paullina Simons
What were you doing fighting with me at Kirov, knowing all this was stacked against us? Raging against my fate.
~ Paullina Simons
I love you. I'm blind for you, wild for you. Sick with you. I told you that our first night together when I asked you to marry me, I am telling you now. Everything that's happened to us, everything, is because I crossed the street for you. I worship you. You know that through and through...
~ Paullina Simons
A bus came. The soldier turned away from her and walked toward it. Tatiana watched him. Even his walk was from another world; the step was too sure, the stride too long, yet somehow it all seemed right, looked right, felt right. It was like stumbling on a book you thought you had lost. Ah, yes, there it is.
~ Paullina Simons
Tatiana: I found my true love on Ulita Saltykov-Schedrin, while I sat on a bench eating ice cream. Alexander: You didn't find me. You weren't even looking for me. I found you. Long pause. Tatiana: Alexander, we're you .... looking for me ? Alexander: All my life.
~ Paullina Simons
When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.
~ Paullina Simons
They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.
~ Paulo Coelho
At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.
~ Paulo Coelho
I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
~ Paulo Coelho
So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
~ Paulo Coelho
If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.
~ Paulo Coelho
Não discuto com o destino o que pintar eu assino
~ Unknown
Destiny obscures human purposes like everything else human, just as if it were a muddy river-bottom swallowing pebbles.
~ Unknown
The decision by the British in 1911 to build New Delhi, without integrating the old city with the new, sealed the fate of Shahjahanabad. From then onwards, purani Dilli would live on but only like an ageing courtesan abandoned by her new suitors, waiting to die.
~ Unknown
She could either give birth to a fool who would live long or be blessed with a genius who would die young.
~ Unknown
It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.
~ Paz de la Huerta
Pues el delito mayor del hombre es haber nacido.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Qué haré? Mas ¿para qué estudio lo que haré, si es evidente que, por más que lo prevenga, que lo estudie y que lo piense, en llegando la ocasión ha de hacer lo que quisiere el dolor, porque ninguno imperio en sus penas tiene?
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Here am bound, the scorn of fate; 'Twas a dream that once a state I enjoyed of light and gladness. What is life? 'Tis but a madness. What is life? A thing that seems, A mirage that falsely gleams, Phantom joy, delusive rest, Since is life a dream at best, And even dreams themselves are dreams.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Who'll believe that when one star Oft unites two happy lovers, Now one star, Estrella, comes Two to tear from one another?
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Since no safety can there be 'Gainst the force of destiny, And the inclemency of fate;
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Tis a dream that I in sadness Here am bound, the scorn of fate;
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca