Quotes About Destiny

My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

Fortune, good night, smile once more; turn thy wheel!

O! when degree is shaked,Which is the ladder to all high designs,The enterprise is sick.

This is the nightThat either makes me or fordoes me quite.

There is no sure foundation set on blood,No certain life achiev'd by others' death.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide;It boots not to resist both wind and tide.

Our jovial star reigned at his birth.

When Fortune means to men most good,She looks upon them with a threatening eye.

I must dance barefoot on her wedding day,And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.

Journeys end in lovers meeting,Every wise man's son doth know.

The true beginning of our end.

How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted o'er,In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

The day shall not be up so soon as I, To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.

Let Hercules himself do what he may,The cat will mew and dog will have his day.

The primrose way to the everlasting bonfire.

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die.

O! hereWill I set up my everlasting rest,And shake the yoke of inauspicious starsFrom this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!Arms, take your last embrace!

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that live must die,Passing through nature to eternity.

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast;Ready with every nod to tumble downInto the fatal bowels of the deep.

There's place and means for every man alive.

But yet I'll make assurance double sure,And take a bond of fate.

Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scornThe power of man, for none of woman bornShall harm Macbeth.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood:Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.