Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam.

For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: – fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.

idiot” comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the...

There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods...

It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn’t know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a...

Wer sich vornimmt, Gutes zu wirken, darf nicht erwarten, dass die Menschen ihm deswegen Steine aus dem Weg räumen, sondern muss auf das Schicksalshafte gefasst sein, dass sie ihm welche daraufrollen.

Our tainted world looms within us, every one.

Even the brightest sun can be obscured by clouds, this is the power of nature.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you…

All live to die, and rise to fall.

Uit deze belevenissen, die niemand ziet, bestaat de innerlijke, wezenlijke lijn van ons lot. Zulk een breuk en scheur groeit weer dicht, hij heelt en wordt vergeten, maar in de diepst verborgen hoek leeft en...

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of values already destroyed at the roots by that very science....

And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was...

There’s no short-cut in life but with right knowledge, you can fast-track things to come to pass.

I’m not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one’s efforts. I’m not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it’s the right...

We are Darwin’s confetti. Some of us fall on bare rock. No matter how good you are, you can fail spectacularly. Just because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Or just...

Anyway, it seems to me that the way most people go on living (I suppose there are a few exceptions), they think that the world of life (or whatever) is this place where everything is...

If I’d been a cowboy, it might’ve ended well.Somewhere on the ramble, I’m sure I’d have to sellMy guns along the highway. My coins to the table To make a gambler’s double, I’d double debts...

Let you limitation fuel your determination to work on your strengths.

Without adversity and trials we may never know what we are capable of.

In this game against fate, I am losing. Miserably.

When an orphan is depressed,” wrote Wilbur Larch, “he is attracted to telling lies. A lie is at least a vigorous enterprise, it keeps you on your toes by making you suddenly responsible for what...

The sun shall lead you in the day.The stars will guide you at night.

The pattern glitters with cruelty. The blue beads are colored with fish blood, the reds with powdered heart. The beads collect in borders of mercy. The yellows are dyed with the ocher of silence. There...

And now I do believe in fate. Especially the kind we make ourselves.

Beware what you speak,’ said the Merlin very softly, ‘for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more…

I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong...

I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.

Pero, cómo pudo Lu Wenli irse con el profesor Liu? -pregunté-. ¡Es inconcebible!-Acaso era concebible meterle la pelota en la boca de un requetazo? -replicó He Zhiwu.Indudablemente, eso formaba parte de las cosas inconcebibles, lo...

Our destinies are riddled with challenges that have a tendency to ruin well laid plans. Many have attempted to take fate into their own hands and have been unsuccessful in changing it.Others find that their...

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

Andy was receptive, like a deep vessel into which life was poured. If this terrible particular thing hadn’t been poured into her, she would have been happier–it goes without saying–but less of a person. She...

Love and trust are so powerful. They can literally change the fate of a person.

People meet when they need to meet.

There is no gravity. The only thing holding me to this planet is you.

Damn you to Lolth’s web!” he said. “Don’t you dare pretend if doesn’t matter to you!” “Why do you care?” Drizzt growled back at him. “No one who has ever made a diffence?” “Do you...

I spoke of the tragic illusion of perpetuity, but, no, my friends, it is a comic one. The ludicrous plot in which we are all trapped. The ancient Greeks referred to plot as mythos, attributing...

Insanity, thy name is woman

His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.

I now warn the reader not to mock me and my mental daze. It is easy for him and me to decipher now a past destiny; but a destiny in the making is, believe me,...

A few weeks will probably determine our fate. Perfect freedom, or Absolute Slavery. To some of us freedom or a halter.

Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.

Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the...

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

I wish I could have shown you that engineheart- the system of pieces and parts that moved us forward, that moves us forward still. One day, a few weeks after my son’s death, I took...

Maybe that’s what makes it so hard. When you spend years thinking and dreaming about someone and have them fall back into your life? Sounds like fate to me.

He talked about luck and fate and numbers coming up, yet he never ventured a nickel at the casinos because he knew the house had all the percentages. And beneath his pessimism, his bleak conviction...

Your problem is that you’re more like an empty book and you’re waiting on someone else to write your pages for you. For someone who doesn’t believe in fate, destiny and all that shit, you...