
“Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.”
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.
Canto XVIII, stanza 58 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.”
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.”
Source: The High King
“Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.”
Zimbabwe, from the album Survival (1979)
Song lyrics
“If I could find a way to escape my destiny, do I deserve to?”
Rand al'Thor
(15 October 1994)
“It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.”
Part 4, LXXXVIII
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)