Bharati Mukherjee Quotes

When it's your time, it is your time.

Whatever happens, however fast it's supposed to happen, it'll happen.

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen.

Fate carries its own clock.

You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.

Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes 'good' from 'bad' luck.

Things happen when they're supposed to happen.

Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then.

The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

I know that I will not die until my time comes.

Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

If anything unfolds, it's supposed to

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

Certainly. My whole life has been decided by fate. I think something more powerful than we are decides our fates for us. I know one thing – I've never planned anything that ever happened to me.

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

The way I see it," she continued, "is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.