Being hit by this unknowable force is often instantaneous.
At the moment when the book is closed, the moment the curtain falls, the moment the movie begins to roll the end of the film, and at the moment when a hot search brushes in front of you, there are gears of fate thundering in your ears.
When faced with fate, people inevitably panic. This ancient and mysterious force moves our lives, and we often feel powerless by the play of fate. But turning the inevitable fate to the other side, human power looms in the history of struggle, and we have never lacked an unyielding soul for destiny. Between endurance and resistance, life presents a duality of fragility and greatness.
Whatever the outcome, it is great enough to fight for it.
A large, lazy cat sleeping on the window sills is a symbol of my disillusioned fate.
- Borges, "Requiem for Germany"
Destiny is like glass, the brighter, the more shiny. The easier it is to break.
- Horace (ancient Roman poet)
Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands orchestrating my destiny.
My life lies here. My heart was calm.
- Fernando Pessoa, "Records of Fear"
"The propagation of light is conical along the time axis, which physicists call a light cone, and it is impossible for people outside the light cone to understand the events happening inside the light cone. Think about who knows now how much information about major events in the universe is flying towards us at the speed of light, some may have been flying for hundreds of millions of years, but we are still outside the light cone of those events. ”
"Within the cone of light is destiny."
——Liu Cixin, "The Three-Body Problem II"
If you predict its future, you will say that it has countless possibilities, but if you look back at its past, you will know that there is actually only one way of destiny.
—Stetson, "Several Simple Guesses of a Riddle"
"When I was a teenager, I saw bees or flies stopping in one place, frightened something, and immediately flew away, but after flying in a small circle, I came back and stopped at the same place, and I thought it was ridiculous and pitiful. But now I flew back myself, but in a little circle. ”
——Lu Xun "On the Restaurant"
Reverence for destiny secures us, makes us aware of the limits of man, and looks at what man can reach.
——Fei Xiaotong, "The Elimination of Ghosts"
Destiny is not the wind, blowing back and forth, destiny is the earth, and wherever you go you are in destiny.
——Gu Cheng "Ying'er"
Snap your fingers, he said
We snap our fingers with a resonance
Distant things will be shattered
The people in front of him did not know at this time
- Ban Yu "The Long"
Screenshot of "The Long Season"
I know what life is, and I don't know how to be good all the time, so I let the streets flood with flowers wafting in the wind, accustomed to looking at towers with vague propositions, and shouting sarcastic comments on the battlefield in the rain under a small umbrella.
- Mu Xin "Mu Xin Talks about Mu Xin"
Because a century of card fortune-telling and her experience had taught her that the history of the family was a machine that never stopped, a wheel that rotated, and that the gear, if not for the gradual and inevitable wear out of the shaft, would have spun forever.
- García Márquez, "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
I am destined to be the hand crank of the poetic organ, and you are to be born for the life you love.
- Gustav Fleuding
What's the use of shouting at fate? Fate is deaf.
- Euripides, "Iphigenia in the Tauros"
The opposite side of the Mandate of Heaven, what punishment and He You?
——Qu Yuan, "Tianwen"
Heaven and earth work together, and heroes are not free.
——Luo Yin, "Chipping Pen Yi"
On the pillow of the rooster, the night air returns, because I want to live the rest of my life, prosperous and beautiful, and my eyes are empty, and for fifty years, it has always become a dream.
——Zhang Dai, "Taoan Dream Memories"
In the hall, he could only see a throne on the platform at the end of the east side, and walked towards it as lightly as he could, but when he stepped over the paved floor, his footsteps sounded, like the footsteps of fate, and the echo was one step ahead of him and spread down the corridor between the columns.
—J.R. Tolkien, "The Unfinished Legend of Numenor and Middle-earth"
Yesterday, my life was moving in one direction. Today it goes in the other direction. Yesterday's I believe I will never do what I did today. This power often reshapes time and space, shaping and changing our imagination of ourselves, beginning long before we are born and continuing after our demise.
--David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas
Screenshot of "Cloud Atlas"
She was too young to know that life would not be rewarded for free. Anything that people suffer from fate, there is a secret price tag.
- Stephen Zweig, Marie Antoinette
I noticed that Sisyphus descended again with heavy and even steps towards his endless sea of suffering. This hour is like a breath, just as his misfortune will surely return, and this is the moment of enlightenment. Every moment he left the top of the mountain, every second he gradually sneaked into the lair of the gods, he surpassed his destiny. He is stronger than the stone he pushes.
—Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"They live or die... That is everyone's fate. Is it better to give up life than to try your luck? ”
- Romain Rolland, "John Christopher"
"That's how fate knocks."
—Beethoven on the first sentence of the Symphony of Destiny
...... No, I can't stand it. I want to curb the throat of fate. It must not bring me to my knees completely...
—Beethoven, "Letters to Wiegler"
The power of fate is recognized only after suffering a tragedy, and the lucky ones always attribute all their success to their shrewdness or other merits.
- Swift, "Gulliver's Travels"
The limits of destiny are eternal, but the unyielding challenges are indispensable.
——Stetson, "Answer Your Own Question"
Fate is for the pursuers, not for the escapees
Open the city gates.
- Shakespeare, "Coriolanus"
I myself am a shuttle, mechanically weaving under the god of fate. In front of you is a fixed stream of warp threads subjected to the only constant vibration back and forth, which is only enough to twist the other threads that cross in with these warp threads. This warp is like necessity. I, I thought to myself, throw my own shuttle with my own hands, weave my own destiny into an immutable rope.
- Herman Melville, "Moby Dick"
Screenshot of Moby Dick
"If fate really bullies you and me ruthlessly, then you don't have to intercede with it and kowtow to it, but look down on it and laugh at it. Otherwise it will laugh at you. ”
- Chekhov, "In Exile"
The wind can blow a large blank sheet of paper, but it cannot blow away a butterfly, because the power of life lies in disobedience.
- Feng Jicai
Fate: An excuse for tyrants to do evil and a reason for fools to fail.
—Ann Beers, "Devil's Dictionary"
"Every time I just find the meaning of life, they change the meaning."
"So, sir, don't look for it, create it."
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Instead of continuing to ask what life means, we should recognize that we are constantly being questioned by life. In the face of this question, we should not answer with words and contemplation, but with the right actions and actions.
—Victor Frank, "Living with Meaning"
A person is not born to be defeated, and man can be destroyed, but he cannot be defeated.
- Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Know the loom. Be the stone.
Lives are like weaving, when they are like rocks.
- "League of Legends" character Talia
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
I am the Lord of my destiny, I am the commander of my soul.
- William Ernest Henry, "Unconquerable"
Hurt, blood and tears blurred
Doubted, and restarted
Promise to fate, tears fall, eyes do not fall
Go all out to fight and guard this pulse
——Li Min, "Battle Song"
Even if fate is upside down, fate is twisted and bizarre
Even if fate threatens you, it's not fun to be human
Don't shed tears, be sad, and don't give up
I want to be with you forever for the rest of my life
——Li Keqin, "Red Sun"
When fate knocks too roughly,
Maybe we can try to gently remind the person trapped in the door.
This TVC,
Aiming at the scars behind those smiles,
Learn a little more,
Maybe it will be able to glue that once shiny piece of glass.