Destiny Quote by Colum McCann Download Open image ““We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us.”” — Colum McCann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Destiny Mortality
“But, no one can tell without cease our human story, and so we lose, lose” — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“Though a story may begin as a lie, perhaps it can be made true. Perhaps their ultimate power is found in how they inspire… — Matthew J. Kirby Copy Share Image
“How complex, untrustworthy, and important our stories are. We will never tell you the true story of our lives.” — Andy Quan Copy Share Image
“Maybe when we can tell the stories, however bad they are, we don't belong to them anymore. They become ours.” — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“What we put in and leave out of our stories tells us something about who we are.” — Eddie S. Glaude Jr Copy Share Image
“Stories often project the best that humanity has to offer. If only we could live up to our stories.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“Whatever terrific events may inform our lives, it always comes to that in the end; we just want to lie down.” — Brian W. Aldiss Copy Share Image
“After everything we have endured, I must cling to the belief that our stories will collide in the end. I need hope. And if… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
“All that we know, soon shall we abandon. As time will lend itself. Eyes know only what they see. But brave hearts beat on… — Nathalie M. Leblanc Copy Share Image
“All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell. Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is… — Nora Raleigh Baskin Copy Share Image
Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy;… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Bits of it floating in the air, he said. "It's like dust. You walk about and don't see it, don't notice it, but it's… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The proper coexistence… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
... War on the destiny of man! Doom on the sun! Before death takes you, O take back this. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.] — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“It's morning now, and I miss the soft rasp of her voice already. Ugh. I'm in trouble, aren't I?” — Pat Shand Copy Share Image
“Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Destiny is the ordained intention God has sacredly prepared with your name on it.” — John S. Lynch Copy Share Image