Quotes About Fate

More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.

The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

Va, et advienne que pourra. Go, and come what may.

Everything in life is luck.

Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will

Would he be happy? Joan hoped so. But somehow he seemed a man fated always to yearn after that which he could not have, to choose for himself the rockiest, most difficult path. She would pray for him, as for all the other sad and troubled souls who must travel roads alone.

Before we're born, we select a series of goals and lessons for our time on Earth. This is a form of sacred contract that determines what type of life we're going to live.

Whatever will be will be.

Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)

They say you only have so many breaths in your lifetime, and I think disappointments might be the same.

Wenn man geboren wird, muss man leben.

I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

to every life there eventually came a moment when one had to accept the fact that the shape, the pattern, the direction of the future was entirely out of one's hands, to be decided unalterably by chance, by fate or by God.

am. This is the life I was meant to live simply because it's the one I have lived.

Why is it no one ever sent me yetOne perfect limousine, do you suppose?Ah no, it's always just my luck to getOne perfect rose.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

Don't fucking work hard, dummy, you die at the end! Didn't anyone tell you?

What is it you want the most? Money, love, fame, happiness? Make your choice, you only get one. Make it, and blow out the candles, spin the wheel, say the prayer. You only get one of them, so make it last. What is it you want the most? My name's Fate, Mister Fate to you, children, and whatever it is you want the most, make sure... Very sure... Because I'm gonna make sure it's the one thing you never get.

To every man upon this Earth, death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better, than facing fearful odds. For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods." —Thomas Babington Macaulay, Horatius at the Bridge

So Jim is right, then," said Kelly. "You aren't really caretakers at all. You just let happen what is destined to happen.

Douglas E. Richards

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess. And you don't find out 'til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along." —Terry Pratchett

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." —Omar Khayyam