Quotes About Fate

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper.

A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain — then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?

Probably everything in the world is decided by tiny last straws.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.

The stars incline, but do not impel.

Everything in life is a matter of choice. There are only two things we have no choice about. We cannot avoid these two things no matter how hard we try. The first is that we must die. Death is an absolute certainty, and the second thing we have no choice about is that we must live until we die. Now understand this - everything else in your life that you think you have to do, or are forced to do, is a choice.

His membership in the human race was entirely accidental and unsolicited.

Time is getting on.... Yes, bad luck to it. It always gallops when you want it to walk, and walks when you want it to gallop, like an ill-trained horse.

Death comes for us all; even at our birth-- even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. It is the law of nature, and the will of God.

Fate, Chance, God's Will — we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate.

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in.

Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile.

Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.

Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all.

The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.

Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last.

We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.

Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.

It is sad when two people turn from the paths they're traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.

Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.

Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there.