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Quotes About Destiny

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
~ Henrik Ibsen
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
~ Henry Fielding
But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.
~ Herman Melville
Call no man happy before he dies.
~ Herodotus
Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.
~ Janet Morris
I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.
~ Jeanette Winterson
There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination.
~ John Mellencamp
Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
~ John Webster
Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.
~ Seneca the Younger
Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
~ Sophocles
Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.
~ Swami Vivekananda
For man plans, but God arranges.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
~ Thomas Hardy
The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.
~ Vaclav Havel
Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.
~ Victor Hugo
Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy.
~ Virgil
Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Ain't no man can outrun his fate.
~ Esi Edugyan
The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
~ Euripides
A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Man Proposeth, God disposeth.
~ George Herbert
You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.
~ George R. R. Martin
A great man may commence life in a hovel.
~ Publilius Syrus
Marriage is god's way to ensure there are few great men
~ Siddharth Katragadda