Alice Hoffman Quotes

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

As certain as death and taxes.

The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.

We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.

You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.

Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone

When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way.

We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

To say that we're doomed is just an obvious remark.

No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.

There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.

The expansion is inevitable.

Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of — how shall I say, I don’t know.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of many who sincerely profess belief in God. It makes prayer psychologically impossible, replacing it with dead ritual at best.

Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

Nothing can happen more than once, but everything must happen one day; Over hill and dale, wood and stream, my dying voice will blow away. . .

Hear me when I say I believe nothings gonna change destiny. Whatevers meant to be will work out perfectly.