Quotes About Fate

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

Why, let the stricken deer go weep,The hart ungalled play;For some must watch, while some must sleep:So runs the world away.

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

A man that fortune's buffets and rewardsHast ta'en with equal thanks.

First Witch: When shall we three meet againIn thunder, lightning, or in rain?Second Witch: When the hurlyburly's done,When the battle's lost and won.

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

It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,Which gives the stern'st good-night.

Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore CawdorShall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more!

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.

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

For he being dead, with him is beauty slain,And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.

The true beginning of our end.

Things without all remedyShould be without regard: what's done is done.

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.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back,Wherein he puts alms for oblivion.

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

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.

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.

William Shakespeare