Horace Walpole Quotes

Things have a way of falling into place.

Fate has blessed me.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

I have so much. Why did it all happen to me? There has to be a reason.

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Some people just aren't meant to be happy.

Luck and misfortune are closely intertwined.

In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.

We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.

Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.

HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today, tonight, right now. Though I know without a doubt that tomorrow will come saturated with pain. Life is like that. At least my life. And honestly, I cant think of anyone whose life is any different. The price tag for joy is misery. [...]

We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about.

I'm a believer of destiny and I believe I'm destiny's child. I've seen the highs and I've seen the lows and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best. Maybe this was all meant to be and maybe Big Brother worked as a catalyst in a bigger issue like racism, which was important to be broached. Maybe it had to happen this way and I'm glad that I could help it.

I believe that this was God's Will - to send a boy into the Reich, to let him become its Leader, in order to bring his home country into the Reich. Otherwise one must doubt Providence.

You believe in a God who plays dice, I in complete law and order.

I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so. Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world.

But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.