Destiny Quote by Louisa May Alcott

“There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself that Providence…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.”

— Michelle Franklin

“It was kind of tragic, I reflected, that we all spent our lives working but never really got good at our work, or even…

— Hope Jahren

“One thing seemed to suggest that I might have some wisp of beauty to offer the world: the nature of my heart, which remained…

— Dean Koontz

“She was moved to a profound but pleasurable melancholy by the evidence that human life is brief and long survived by the material things…

— Helen Hooven Santmyer

“She was living in bad sociery; and, imaginary though it was, its influence affected her, for she was feeding heart and fancy on dangerous…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Even then, only a child, she knew she had to pretend to be someone else -- for her parents, for their customers, for everyone…

— Leslie Parry

“Soon that feeling of nothingness returned and the beautiful mind that once loved like a child became again so lost in itself that it…

— Malik Will

“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining…

— George Eliot

“She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had…

— Joseph Conrad

“Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“IMPROVIDENCE The other lives I might have led All now might as well be Dead. Survived by no one. Barren, without issue of any…

— John Tottenham