Inescapable Destiny Quotes

Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.

Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

It's over. We've all been sentenced to die.

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

In the end, the Wheel crushes us all.

Destiny plays a very important role in my life.

That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you'd have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.

Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched behind one now stretches before him.

What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

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.

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright all that I have heard,' he said, 'I think that this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

I walked towards my fate with my destiny standing solidly by my side

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

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.