Quotes About Destiny

The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

Favour will as surely perish as life.

What shall we call this undetermin'd state, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans, That whence we came, and that to which we tend?

Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the incalculable results of this life, a crown of shame or glory upon our heads, and begin again on a new level of progress.

The life you make is the life you will have. Your decisions are your blueprint.

Each to choose their own paths in life, regardless of education, no one can predict the outcome, then one goal in front of him. Anything that can be based on the values of what's coming

I do believe everything happens for a reason, and I'm extremely grateful for that day because it led me into this life!

Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.

Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.

If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position… to make all the difference in the world.

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.

I'm not in charge of my life.

Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.

I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.