Quotes About Fate

I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I realized the cost of it. I could set aside my responsibilities to others and live my life as I please only when I also severed my ties to them. I could not have it both ways. To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibilities, to be bound by the rules of that group.

De todas las bromas crueles que me había gastado recientemente el destino, decidí que despertar era la más cruel de todas.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.

However, there are those who deserve to die but who have not yet encountered the means to do so—we help them on their way.

You can lament and carry on all you want to, but bad stuff happens to good people and there's not much any of us can do about it except choose how to respond.

It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.

I am trying to understand what it means to own a thing, especially a wild and living being. To have exclusive rights to its fate? To dispose of it at will? To deny others its use? Ownership seems a uniquely human behavior, a social contract validating the desire for purposeless possession and control.

I am trying to understand what it means to own a thing, especially a wild and living being. To have exclusive rights to its fate? To dispose of it at will? To deny others its use? Ownership seems a uniquely human behaviour, a social contract validating the desire for purposeless possession and control.

Our histories plan our futures.

I'm probably too sentimental, but I think people find each other when they're supposed to. When they need to.

Good luck with this, man." "It's not what you think." "Oh—it is what I think. You're so into this woman, you're done for. I can't wait to see how this turns out." "Yeah. Me, too.

chances? Nil.

In mythology, there were three women who determined your fate. The daughters of Zeus were called the Moirai. Three sisters who determined a man's destiny.

There's Klotho, of course. She's the youngest and she spins the thread of life while the middle sister Lachesis is the measurer. She selects one's lot in life and determines how long that life will be.

If destiny could bring two people together, then it could just as easily tear them apart, and, if it could tear two people apart, then it could just as easily bring them back together again. There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny. It wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary.

You can give a person a hundred reasons not to love someone, but when it's too late, it's too late.

Nobody planned on the worst, but they got it just the same and had to deal. He knew the saying that "Man plans and God laughs," but he'd learned the truth was exactly the opposite—Man plans and God cries.

No coincidence, no story.

I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.

I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.