Quotes About Fate

Impose your luck, embrace your happiness and go toward your risks: by looking at you, they'll get used to it.

Nous sommes pareils à ces crapauds qui dans l'austère nuit des marais s'appellent et ne se voient pas, ployant à leur cri d'amour toute la fatalité de l'univers. ( We are like those frogs in the austere night of marshes who call without seeing one another, bending the whole fatality of the universe to their love-cry. )

Entre les deux coups de feu qui décidèrent de son destin, il eut le temps d'appeler une mouche : Madame.

Nous sommes pareils à ces crapauds qui dans l'austère nuit des marais s'appellent et ne se voient pas, ployant à leur cri d'amour toute la fatalité de l'univers.

What men call chance is simply their ignorance of causes; if the statement that something had happened by chance were to mean that it had no cause, it would be a contradiction in terms.

Maybe there are stories, even, like solitaire or canasta; they are shuffled and dealt, then they do or they do not come out. Or the deck falls on the floor. Or a piece of country music, a quartet, a parade, the flag—all the things one ought by now to be too old for—touch, whatever it is.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

Sometimes I feel like I don't deserve happiness, especially now. Maybe I'm destined for an unhappy outcome.

Juana ran her hand over her mother's face. "One day

In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen." William S. Burroughs (1914–1997) WRITER AND POET

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice." (William Jennings Bryan 1860-1925)

When I awoke the next morning I looked out at a landscape blotted out by mist and the first thought that came to me was, I wonder who is going to be killed today?

Electra droned

De todos modos el destino había empezado a armar su trama, a tejer su intriga, a anudar en un punto los hilos sueltos de aquello que los antiguos griegos han llamado el muthos.

yo iba a hacer un daño un día, yo de viejo iba a ser otro experto en cómo perderlo todo, y ni siquiera ella habría podido evitarlo.

Durkon: You're only saying that because you don't want the world to end. Roy: Of course I'm only saying that because I don't want the world to end. This is not an otherwise common topic of conversation .

Sal didn't think in Ifs. If led to If only Macey wasn't sick, and even If only Sal's bone marrow was a match. If never did anybody any good at all.

When I was in Outremer, I got shot in the face with an arrow. Should've killed me instantly; but by some miracle it hung up in my cheekbone, and an enemy doctor we'd captured the day before yanked it out with a pair of tongs. You should be dead, they said to me, like I'd deliberately cheated. No moral fibre.

It is as if we are trapped in a never-ending game, our lives hinging on the roll of a dice or the turn of a card.

One makes their own luck, good or ill... and there are no guesses, merely faulty concentration.

Nec vta nec fortna hominibus perpes est. (Publilius

There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be.

Despite the smooth illusions perpetrated by mass culture in the United States, sexual gratification is not a sacred right, and celibacy is not a fate worse than death.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.