#fate

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#fate #destiny

Life gives us the music but we can raise or lower the volume as we like ↗

— Natalia Lizardo

#life

he knew that fate was only a mythological concept ↗

— Dean Koontz

#life #life

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet. ↗

— Alvar N. C. de Vaca

#dangerously #death #fate #felt #getting

Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate ↗

— Rick Riordan

#karma #karma

I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason but I don't think that there's a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#karma #karma

I am alone this evening, and I am alone because of a cruel twist of fate, a phrase which here means that nothing has happened the way I thought it would. Once I was a content man, with a comfortable home, a successful career, a person I loved very much, and an extremely reliable typewriter, but all of those things have been taken away from me, and now the only trace I have of those happy days is the tattoo on my left ankle. As I sit in this very tiny room, printing these words with a very large pencil, I feel as if my whole life has been nothing but a dismal play, presented just for someone else’s amusement, and that the playwright who invented my cruel twist of fate is somewhere far above me, laughing and laughing at his creation. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#god #life

LIfe is just a game of chance, a dance with fate if you let it be so. Or you could chose to play by your rules to win. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#dance #fate #game-of-chance #life #play

Єсть на світі доля, А хто її знає? Єсть на світі воля, А хто її має? Єсть люде на світі — Сріблом-злотом сяють, Здається, панують, А долі не знають,— Ні долі, ні волі! З нудьгою та з горем Жупан надівають, А плакати — сором. Возьміть срібло-злото Та будьте багаті, А я візьму сльози — Лихо виливати; Затоплю недолю Дрібними сльозами, Затопчу неволю Босими ногами! Тоді я веселий, Тоді я багатий, Як буде серденько По волі гуляти! ↗

— Taras Shevchenko

#freedom #life #shevchenko #tears #ukraine

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring. ↗

— Farkas Bolyai

#mathematics #politics #science #thought #science