Quotes About Fate

Actaeon who saw the goddess naked among the leaves and his hounds tore him A little knowledge, a pebble from the shingle A drop from the oceans: who would have dreamed this infinitely little too much.

This is the essence of tragedy, To have meant well and made woe, and watch Fate, All stone, approach.

Every man is put on earth condemned to die. Time and method of execution unknown.

And then we stupidly fear one kind of death, while we have already passed and are passing so many others.

So much of what happens by chance forms what becomes your life.

So much of what happens by chance forms what becomes of your life….I suppose I must be grateful, for I seem to have been headed this way all along.

Fate is not merely knocking on the door, it has entered with a SWAT team and is banging their heads together and administering poppers.

What about fateful turns in your life? Naturalists like Thomas Hardy proposed that some people are simply born under 'a blighted star' like his heroine in Tess of the D'Urbervilles. If so, then no matter what we did, we couldn't improve our lives.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Ill met by moonlight,' said Deirdre. 'You could still be tied to a stake,' said Random, and she did not reply.

All roads lead to Amber, he said, as though it were an axiom.

I wish that some time, long ago, something had not been said that was said, or something done that was not done. Something, had we known, which might have let him grow differently, something which would have seen him become another man than the bitter, bent thing I saw up there. It is best now if he is dead. But it is a waste of something that might have been.

Sometimes the mills of the gods grind too damned fast and we get buried in grist

Yes,' it announced then. 'You are the one.' 'The one what?' I said. 'The one I will accompany. You've no objection to a bird of ill omen following you, have you, Corwin?' It chuckled then, and executed a little dance.

Corwin," he stated then, "it pleases me more than I can say to see you die not knowing something that means that much for you.

I've been waiting for you since the beginning of Time, Corwin." "Must have been a bit tiresome.

It is him, Random. Him. That's all.

Kroon ei muuda selle kandjat automaatselt pistodakindlaks. [Merlin] Aga pärija tuleb võimule suure hulga paha pagasiga. [Suhuy]

But it was an unrefrigerated world. And everything ended badly.

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents-a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

Jis met?si ? šal?, vengdamas šuns ant kelio, geltono mišr?no, nusususio ir perkarusio. Manekas dirstel?jo pro užpakalin? stikl?, ar gyvulys laimingai per?jo gatv?. J? sutraišk? už j? važiuojantis sunkvežimis.

In a manner of speaking,' he sighed. 'After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents – a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

It was probably at this point that a pregnant Eliza first smiled and shook hands with her husband's future executioner.

His faculties stayed intact until about fifteen minutes before the end. Then, at 2:00 P.M. on Thursday, July 12, 1804, thirty-one hours after the duel, forty-nine-year-old Alexander Hamilton died gently, quietly, almost noiselessly.