All Quotes By Tag: Fate
“If it’s ka it’ll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone”
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“…some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.”
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“But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.”
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“We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
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“I’ve been lonely for so long. And I’ve been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn’t have had to take all these detours to get here.’Tengo shook his head. ‘I don’t think so. This way is just fine. This is exactly the right time. For both of us. […] We needed that much time…. to understand how lonely we really were.”
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“We can’t choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.”
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“Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there’s no happily ever after. You’ll only find happy endings in books. Some books.”
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“Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried.”
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“I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.”
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“Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward–that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have.”
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“A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.”
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“I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.”
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“Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn’t even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you… I think you’ll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portion.”
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“We all have such fateful objects — it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another — carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane’s heart always break.”
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