Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

When it's your time, it is your time.

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

Some things happen without you putting an effort, while some others things do not happen despite we wanting it to happen.

Even the Gods Can't Change History

We don't always choose moments. You know, sometimes they choose us.

I think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

Even God cannot change the past.

Even the Gods cannot change the past.

No one can defy fate.

You can't shape it. You can't change it. Your life is what it is.

When it's your turn, it's your turn. That's just the way it is.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

I believe in fate, never in chance.

A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.

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

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Intimates are predestined.

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.