Quotes About Fate

What if you never meet him? Then I shall die an old maid, was the cheerful response. I daresay it isn't the hardest death by any means. Oh, I suppose the dying would be easy enough, it's the living an old maid I shouldn't like, said Diana, with no intention of being humorous.

you'll be spared an awful lot of trouble if you die young.

If it had not rained on a certain May morning Valancy Stirling's whole life would have been entirely different. She would have gone, with the rest of her clan, to Aunt Wellington's engagement picnic and Dr. Trent would have gone to Montreal. But it did rain and you shall hear what happened to her because of it.

We are going to be the best of friends, said Gilbert, jubilantly. We were born to be good friends, Anne. You've thwarted destiny enough. I know we can help each other in many ways.

Peter was going to die—to DIE.

everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway. But even so, it's nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination.

What is to be, will be, said Mrs. Rachel gloomily, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.

Non è mai prudente pensare che per noi sia già finita. Quando crediamo di aver scritto la parola fine sulla nostra storia, ecco che il destino usa lo stratagemma di voltare pagina e ci svela che c'è un capitolo ancora.

Yet still the Piper piped and the dance of death went on.

What is to be will be, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.

No, darling. We've always known each other in Tomorrow,' I said.

I don't half like that, said Miss Oliver, with a sigh. It's ominous—somehow. A perfect thing is a gift of the gods—a sort of compensation for what is coming afterwards.

Admit you found it pleasant to be worshipped. Admit that you liked the idea of being a sort of dea ex machina--saving people from their own folly when they didn't in the least want to be saved from it.

nothing to hinder me. But that brief dream is over. I am resigned to my fate now, so I don't think I'll go out for fear I'll get unresigned again.

Seremos los mejores amigos —anunció Gilbert jubilosamente—. Nacimos para ser buenos amigos, Ana. Ya has frustrado al destino por suficiente tiempo.

Romantik olduklar? müddetçe talihsizlikler pek umurumda olmaz.

Pero hay un consuelo, se ahorrará un montón de problemas y sufrimientos si muere joven.

San?r?m ?anss?z bir y?ld?z?n alt?nda do?mu?um.

cut off hanging by a strip of skin. He said he knew it was the spirit of his brother and that it was a warning he would die within nine days. He didn't, but he died two years after, so you see it was really true. And Ruby Gillis says—

Stoutness and slimness seem to be matters of predestination

The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.

no medicine man or wise man knew why one man died and another lived. Wise men themselves often died before fools, and cowards before men who were brave.

Things are just put together wrong. There's so much shit in the world a man's gonna get in it sooner or later, whether he's careful or not.

He didn't understand why women had such a need to question. He himself preferred just to let life happen, and act when opportunity arose.