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Quotes About Fate

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.
~ Louise Erdrich
I've spent a life time waiting for the right time, now that you're near, the time is here at last.
~ Elvis Presley
...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
~ Alain de Botton
Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.
~ Lauren Kate
People were destined for one another; that's the romantic idea that young girls have, and I guess part of me still believes it.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I'm supposed to believe it's a coincidence that we're both former spies that ended up together?
~ Katie Reus, Fatal Deception
Meryl Sawyer, Half Moon Bay
~ Character determines fate.
Some times we choose our fate, " she said. "Other times it's chosen for us." The cleft between his dark brows deepened and his jaw clenched then released. "And sometimes its what we make it.
~ Megan Mitcham, Enemy Mine
Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always free will, and that is your saving grace, my dear.
~ Yasmine Galenorn
It was never wise to challenge fate to a Hold my beer contest.
~ Yasmine Galenorn
Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
After he became the Master, the world believed that he could not lose, and he had to believe it himself. Therein was the tragedy.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
She could see the name Fukamachi on a shiny name-plate by the door of the house, but it was a name that meant nothing to Kazuko. And at that moment, in her heart, she began to dream of meeting someone. Someone special who would one day walk into her life. Someone she would instantly feel she had known for years. Someone who would feel the same about her.
~ Yasutaka Tsutsui
Even the wisest man grows tense/with some sort of violence/before he can accomplish fate,/know his work or choose his mate.
~ Yeats
To sit beside the board and drink good wine And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire And feel content and wisdom in your heart, This is the best of life; when we are young We long to tread a way none trod before, But find the excellent old way through love And through the care of children to the hour Forbidding Fate and Time and Change goodbye.
~ yeats william butler ii
Nunca puedes perder algo que es realmente tuyo, ni ganar algo que no lo es. El dinero aparecerá. Y si no lo hace, es porque nunca fue mío desde el principio".
~ Yehuda Berg
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Do you believe that you will die? Yes, man is mortal, I am a man, ergo... No, that isn't what I mean. I know that you know that. What I'm asking is: Have you ever actually believed it, believe it completely, believe not with your mind but with your body, actually felt that one day the fingers now holding this very piece of paper will be yellow and icy...?
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd be no point in reading.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth reading to the very end.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Quem sabe como tu és? O homem é como os romances: só na última página é que se sabe o final
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Who knows who you are . . . A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth reading to the very end
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Man is like a novel: up to the last page one does not know what the end will be. It would not be worth reading otherwise
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin