Can you hear Destiny laugh as she tiptoes toward you? Destiny is heartless.
You Can Not Run From Destiny
The past is a novel, written by Fate, weaving the same themes: love and its glory, hate and its prisoners, the soul and its price. Our decisions become narratives: fated choices that unknowably change...
And then there's the other thing.The thing I'm trying to ignore. The thing I shouldn't want, the thing I can't have.And he's standing in front of me right now.So what do I wish for? Something I'm not...
If it be now, 'tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come-the readiness is all.
Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate.
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.
He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised.
If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come. He is bound to no one that the world unfold just so upon its course and those...
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets...
GOD HAS TAKEN YOUR MOTHER. MY HANDS WERE THE INSTRUMENT. GOD HAS TAKEN MY HANDS. I AM GOD'S INSTRUMENT.
That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there...
A person's destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.
Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.
We are all subject to fate. But we must all act as if we were not. Or die of despair.
You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.
I was irritated by the way he conflated his own shifting needs with an impersonal destiny. I want it, therefore...it's in the stars!
Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
You could study the connections for years and never work it out-it was all about things coming together,things falling apart,time warp, my mother standing out in front of the museum when time...
Each of us is born to follow a star, be it bright and shining or dark and fated. Sometimes the path of these stars will cross, bringing love or hatred. However, if you look up at the skies on a clear...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane's exterior.