Marilyn French Quotes

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

- Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? - Yes. - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

You're not always able to choose.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

I never want to get stuck in the box.

I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.

What you fear your whole life comes to pass. You end up living toward it, you spend your life running from it but your foot is nailed to the sidewalk. You circle around it until you wear yourself own.

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.

So, your saying choices and destiny shape the course of our lives? "I think so, yes. It's just easier to blame fate for all of the mistakes.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.

The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.

As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

As much as thinking this upsets me, I'm starting to see that I need the merry-go-round much more than it needs me, and in the end my choice is to hop back on or get left in the dust.

The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.