Quotes About Fate

Poi, gettando un ultimo sguardo su quel bel giovane di venticinque anni appena, che egli lasciava a giacere lì, privo di sentimenti, e forse morto, sospirò sullo strano destino che induce gli uomini a distruggersi gli uni con gli altri nell'interesse di persone estranee, le quali spesso ignorano, di quei loro paladini, perfino l'esistenza.

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

Je hais, pour ma part, ces systèmes absolus, qui font dépendre tous les événements de l'histoire de quelques causes premières se liant les unes aux autres par une chaîne fatale, et qui suppriment, pour ainsi dire, les hommes de l'histoire du genre humain. Je les trouve étroits dans leur prétendue grandeur, et faux sous leurs airs de vérités mathématiques.

An old man – utterly alone – he had staked his all on a throw – and lost.

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

I'm fated to lose everyone I ever love," April said. "I already know that." "Of course you are," Jet responded in her calm, measured tone. "That's what it means to be alive.

I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

This is what happens when you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.

It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone — maybe even more alone — than I was…

I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search for, nothing to force. I didn't understand that even when we can't control our fate, we alone have the last say in matters of the heart. We can give it freely, even in the worst of times, even when it isn't returned.

What's done cannot be undone. What's set into motion takes on a life of its own.

You couldn't see love, or touch it, or taste it, yet it could destroy you and leave you in the dark, chasing after your own destiny.

I think of life as a book of stories. You move through the stories and the characters change. But once you have a name on your skin you are stuck with one story, even if it's a bad one.

the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go. Fate was both what we were given and what we made for ourselves.

I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.

Certain things need not be said, and there's nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what's about to happen.

What is meant to be is bound to happen, whether or not you approve.

She truly believed that she carried her own fate in the palm of her hand, as if destiny was nothing more than a green marble or a robin's egg, a trinket any silly girl could scoop up and keep. She believed that all you wanted, you would eventually receive, and that fate was a force which worked with you, not against you.

hoping that if she just walked down the same street fate would whirl her backward in time until she was once more (fill in your age), when the future was something she had not yet stepped into, when it was just an idea, a moment, something that had not disappointed her yet.

is simply the way of the world to lose everything you have ever loved.

I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away.