Quotes About Destiny

Fate can be one mean god at times.

Most of the gods throw dice but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been using two queens all along. Fate wins.

Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits.

Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.

She couldn't be the prince, and she'd never be a princess, and she didn't want to be a woodcutter, so she'd be the witch and know things.

SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? "I too cannot be cheated," snapped Fate.

It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.

Listen, happy endings is fine if they turn out happy," said Granny, glaring at the sky. "But you can't make 'em for other people. Like the only way you could make a happy marriage is by cuttin' their heads off as soon as they say 'I do', yes? You can't make happiness…" Granny Weatherwax stared at the distant city. "All you can do," she said, "is make an ending.

He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.

I must admit, you're not the chosen one I would have chosen.

This is called the theory of narrative causality and it means that a story, once started, takes a shape. It picks up all the vibrations of all the other workings of that story that have ever been.

Certain things have to happen before other things. Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board, and look all over the place for the dice.

Destiny was funny stuff, he knew. You couldn't trust it. Often you couldn't even see it. Just when you knew you had it cornered, it turned out to be something else—coincidence, maybe, or providence. You barred the door against it, and it was standing behind you. Then just when you thought you had it nailed down it walked away with the hammer.

Lots of things have never happened before. We're only born once.

Lu-Tze had long considered that everything happens for a reason, except possibly football.

No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.

You could say to the universe, this is not fair. And the universe would say: Oh, isn´t it? Sorry. You could save people. You could get there in the nick of time. And something could snap its fingers and say, no, it has to be this way. Let me tell you how it has to be.

Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn't his fault).

You're saying,' he said, weighing each word, 'that we should send Carrot away to be a duck among humans because Bjorn Stronginthearm is my uncle.

being assassinated is natural causes for a king.

The Lawyers of Fate demand a loophole in every prophecy.

You couldn't put off the inevitable. Because sooner or later, you reached the place when the inevitable just went and waited.

Come on. Let's run away. Where to? Rincewind sighed. He'd tried to make his basic philosophy clear time and again, and people never got the message. Don't you worry about to, he said. In my experience that always takes care of itself. The important word is away.

Whether you wanted it or not, you were born, you did the best you could, and then, whether you really wanted to or not, you died.