Quotes About Destiny

O! that a man might knowThe end of this day's business, ere it come.

But this denoted a foregone conclusion.

No sooner met, but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.

Macduff was from his mother's wombUntimely ripp'd.

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,Without my stir.

And to be kingStands not within the prospect of belief.

My fate cries out,And makes each petty artery in this bodyAs hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.

Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

We see which way the stream of time doth runAnd are enforc'd from our most quiet sphereBy the rough torrent of occasion.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere wellIt were done quickly; if the assassinationCould trammel up the consequence, and catchWith his surcease success; that but this blowMight be the be-all and the end-all here,But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,We'd jump the life to come.

One out of suits with fortune.

These violent delights have violent ends.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

A pair of star-cross'd lovers.

One writ with me in sour misfortune's book.

I was not born under a riming planet.

O my prophetic soul!My uncle!

Had I but died an hour before this chanceI had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant,There's nothing serious in mortality,All is but toys; renown and grace is dead,The wine of life is drawn, and the mere leesIs left this vault to brag of.

I bear a charmed life.

Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,To make a hazard of new fortunes here.

O God! that one might read the book of fate.

William Shakespeare

Were it goodTo set the exact wealth of all our statesAll at one cast? to set so rich a mainOn the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?