Quotes About Fate

Grabbed in the ass by fate," his father used to say about coincidences like this. If there were coincidences like this. If there were coincidences...

Live or dead, no creature might escape the unfolding of its own actions. He

Whenever you are ready, or if you never are, my heart is yours, until Death do us part. Whatever that may mean when consorting with one of Death's handmaidens.

It is unwise for them to be so very happy, for the gods will feel the need to humble us.

Extolling the supremacy of fate, Chanakya says that it is impossible for anyone to overrule it. It is the miracle of fate which can make a king to become a pauper and a pauper to become a king. Whatever God has in store for a man, he has to bear the consequences accordingly.

We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or by our lack of choices, for that matter.

No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been.

Fate's schedule is not always naked and clear.

My soul is fate's chew toy. My destiny pursues me like an experienced tracker., like a malevolent hunter, bites me and won't let go. What I thought I left behind I find again. I'll always be a failure, then, now, and forever.

My soul is fate's chew toy. My destiny pursues me like an experienced tracker, like a malevolent hunter, bites me and won't let go. What I thought I left behind I find again. I'll always be a failure, then, now, and forever. Fail again. Fail worse. I witness my life's collapse.

We are condemned to repeat the past whether we remember it or not.

My soul is fate's chew toy.

I remember I once told him: 'Women's minds are so petty, so crooked!' 'Like the feet of Chinese women,' he replied. 'Has not the pressure of society cramped them into pettiness and crookedness? They are but pawns of the fate which gambles with them. What responsibility have they of their own?

CANNOT choose the best. The best chooses me.

The stone will melt in tears, because I can't remain closed to you forever. I can't escape without being conquered. From the blue sky an eye will gaze down, to summon me in silence. I will receive death utterly at your feet.

Whenever Power removes all checks from its path to make its career easy, it triumphantly rides into its ultimate crash of death.

A man doesn't have to seek misfortune; it's gonna throw at him uninvited.

It's strange,' he said, 'that you always changed everything and I changed nothing and yet we've both ended up in the same place.

Fate, he said, is only truth in its natural state. When you leave things to fate it can take a long time, he said, but its processes are accurate and inexorable.

I had started to desire power, because what I now realised was that other people had had it all along, that what I called fate was merely the reverberation of their will, a tale scripted not by some universal storyteller but by people who would elude justice for as long as their actions were met with resignation rather than outrage.

Not to have been born in a woman's body was a piece of luck in the first place: he couldn't see his own freedom because he couldn't conceive of how elementally it might have been denied him... The wounded don't survive in nature: a woman could never throw herself on fate and expect to come out of it intact. She has to connive at her own survival...

I said I wasn't sure it mattered where people lived or how, since their individual nature would create its own circumstances: it was a risky kind of presumption, I said, to rewrite your own fate by changing its setting; when it happened to people against their will, the loss of the known world---whatever its features---was catastrophic.

The unexpected sometimes looks like a prompting of fate.

Il destino, ha detto, non è che verità allo stato naturale.