Fate Quotes

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has...

The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not on...

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, what's the rest o...

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Fate has carried me'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--Not shrink and let the shaft pass by...

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

A sweet fate oft hides a sinner's heart.

To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot...

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan...

... and then beginning to go back to what you can't even remember.

Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his s...

A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying t...

To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably b...

I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really un...

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing direction.

And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter ho...

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but th...

Anyway, it seems to me that the way most people go on living (I suppose there are a few exceptions),...

A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compar...

I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, ...

You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own...

Character is destiny

Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; ...

The frenzies of the chase had by this time worked them bubblingly up, like old wine worked anew. Wha...

Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this s...

Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a bil...

Come what will, one comfort's always left — that unfailing comfort is, it's all predestinated.

Fate and character are different names for the same idea.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we c...

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive...

I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ...

He talked about luck and fate and numbers coming up, yet he never ventured a nickel at the casinos b...

Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a...

In the centre of Bond was a hurricane-room, the kind of citadel found in old-fashioned houses in the...

It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and dis...

I was irritated by the way he conflated his own shifting needs with an impersonal destiny. I want it...

...[R]eason of itself, independent on all experience, ordains what ought to take place, that accordi...

He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitt...

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the ...

Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'I...

For nothing is evil in the beginning.

You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, a...

I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; ...

And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expecte...

I fear mostly my inability to capture all the things that come, I fear their mysterious source, I fe...

It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiti...

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still tryi...

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

He is cured by faith who is sick of fate.

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against ...

Fate loves the fearless.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is f...

The ancients believed in Fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. ...

Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?' Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future harde...

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

In my youth, the question chiefly important to me was—What sort of man shall I decide to be? At nine...

You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let th...

Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.

You beg fate to make your fears into reality, Aleran. But for the moment, they are only fears. They ...

In any random slaughter, the difference between living and dying rarely has anything to do with will...

In any random slaughter, the difference between living and dying rarely has anything to do with will...

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to...

By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,And not in utter loneline...

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.

It is the lumps and trialsThat tell us whether we shall be knownAnd whether our fate can be exemplar...

I hold that there is a mysterious connection between the fate of this country and that of Mexico so ...

Tis Fate that flings the dice,And as she flingsOf kings makes peasants,And of peasants kings.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Whatever is, is in its causes just;But purblind manSees but a part o' th' chain; the nearest link;Hi...

The river of life, of mysterious laws and mysterious choice, flows past a deserted embankment; and a...

Life calls the tune, we dance.

Really," said Winifred suddenly; "it almost seems like Fate. Only that's so old-fashioned.

There is no shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.

There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.

Who am I to say that these things might nit be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact th...

When an orphan is depressed," wrote Wilbur Larch, "he is attracted to telling lies. A lie is at leas...

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

All is best, though we oft doubt, what the unsearchable dispose, of highest wisdom brings about.

No one doubts your courage, but you are a headstrong knight and when you choose a way you cannot cha...

And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to he...

Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time.

Lost in these imaginary illusions I forgot my destiny – that of the hunted.

It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable ...

The ways of heaven are dark and intricate;Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.

Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him o...

It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

That men would die was a matter of necessity; which men would die, though, was a matter of circumsta...

As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves y...