Elif Safak Quotes

You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.

Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.

Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.

But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.

Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.

Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

The right timing is not always our timing.

All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.

Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.

No one can escape his destiny.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the heavens and leading us to our destiny, but it's only our vanity. We look at the galaxy and fall in love, but the universe cares less about us than we do about it, and the stars stay in their courses however much we may wish upon them to do otherwise. It's true that if you watch the sky-wheel turn for a while you'll see a meteor fall, flame and die. That's not a star worth following; it's just an unlucky rock. Our fates are here on earth. There are no guiding stars.

Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant-" "Meant!" she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which, in the crush, brought her against his chest as if they were still dancing. She fought backward for space. As if what were meant?" "You," he said. "And me.

It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.

You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.