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Quotes About Fate

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...
~ Ernesto Guevara
AÈ™ vrea s? fiu mai bine un n?tâng, decât un înÈ›elept vestind nenorociri. S? se petreac? toate minunat chiar împotriva minÈ›ii mele!
~ Eschil
Because we cannot see the roads we have not taken, we become, by defaults, advocates for the path our life is on.
~ Ethan Watters
Could she ever be, would she be, where she was going?
~ Eudora Welty
Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.
~ Euripides
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
~ Euripides
But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt.
~ Andrew Marvell
As lines, so loves oblique may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet. Therefore the love which us doth bind, But Fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.
~ Andrew Marvell
And yet I quickly might arrive Where my extended soul is fixt, But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt.
~ Andrew Marvell
Sometimes you don't get to choose your struggles—they choose you.
~ Andrew Mayne
Sometimes serendipity must be seduced.
~ Andrew Mayne
In the summer of 1979 another boyfriend, Adam Russell, completed his language degree at Oxford and decided to spend a year travelling. He left unspoken the fact that he hoped the friendship between himself and Diana could be renewed and developed upon his return. When he arrived home a year later it was too late. A friend told him: "You've only got one rival, the Prince of Wales.
~ Andrew Morton
don't say "pity" again,' I warned. 'I blame myself for who I am and where I am, and that includes friends and family.' He laughed. 'Maybe you are too hard on yourself. You can't underestimate the power of coincidence and fate. They have a lot to do with who and what you are. Look at us. If I hadn't been standing in that spot in the supermarket and you weren't distracted, we might never have met.
~ Andrew Neiderman
Fortune is a liberal mistress; I have often said so, and now begin to experience
~ Andrew Roberts
Sometimes, what looks like bad luck may turn out to be good luck and vice versa
~ Andrew Roberts
It's somewhat disconcerting to know that my lifespan is limited by your whim — and your available mana —and not feel any fear about it.
~ Andrew Rowe
God alone knew what they could have done if the buttons had not been noticed before they reached France!
~ Andrew Wareham
If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.
~ Andrew Weil
Drink up!" urged the Chief. "There's no escaping fate. Drink while the champagne lasts!
~ Andrey Kurkov
No one wants to suffer. But that is the fate of each. And some suffer more. Not necessarily of their own volition. It's not about to enduring the suffering. It's about how you endure it.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Because I know that in order to unite two people, destiny is insufficient. Something more is necessary than destiny.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Doubts. Only evil, sir, never has any. But no one can escape his destiny.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Destiny isn't the judgements of providence, isn't scrolls written by the hand of a demiurge, isn't fatalism. Destiny is hope. Being full of hope, believing that what is meant to happen will happen.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Yes, we are corpses. But you are death. Ciri
~ Andrzej Sapkowski