“I'm flummoxed by this unraveling of time, I'm losing my grip on myself. I know that nothing awful will happen on the other side of the door. If anything, I'm about to have a perfectly forgettable day: a class to teach, a meeting with colleagues, maybe a movie. But I'm afraid of forgetting something crucial—my cell phone or my identity card, my health insurance or my keys. And I'm afraid of running into trouble.”
Source: Whereabouts
“What was this sense of guilt so seemingly innate, so easy to come by, to think, to feel, so verily physical? It seemed that when one felt this guilt one was but retracing in one’s living a faint pattern designed long before; it seemed that one was trying to remember a gigantic shock that had left an impression upon one’s body which one could not forget, but which had been almost forgotten by the conscious mind, creating in one a state of external anxiety.”
Source: The Man Who Lived Underground
“Fate sure is a mysterious thing. You think you have it all figured out, and boom, it throws completely unpredictable surprises at you. Yet, in the end, you find out it was not some wrathful God’s curse or your paying for your unknown crimes, but simply a new path to take, new amazing things to experience, new hardships to overcome, and new heights to reach.”
Source: The Prison of Deviants
“It made no more sense to doubt the inevitability of fate than it did to doubt the color of the sky”
Source: She Who Became the Sun
“People say fate is in our hands, and whether it turns against us, depends entirely upon our deeds.”
Source: The Prison of Deviants
“He said : Not to know the decree is to be
without the means of being a proper man.
2. Not to know the rites is to be without means to
construct.
3. Not to know words is to
be without the fluid needful to understand men.”
Source: Confucian Analects
“We are pawns of life, in dreams,
Queens and kings of fate, it seems -
In our earthly realm we dare to think,
But instead of reigning, we fall to sleep.”
Source: Her Suns And Their Daughters: Daughters Of The Universe Seen
“If children are fated to live out the unfulfilled dreams of their parents”
Source: Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
“I’ve wanted to die for a
long time and one day,
I’m going out like a
Texas lightning storm –
big, bold, beautiful,
deadly, dead and
done with.”
Source: Cells
“Sometimes fate is more curious and surprising than an unexpected and equally disgusting crime. It may be called destiny, fate, God, whoever's up there or down here rolling dice, he is certainly having a great laugh indeed.”
Source: Un probabile delitto