Quotes About Fate

a man has many lives. Each day we chose the path we would take by our own actions... 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 give and what we made for ourselves.

Love was the thing that tore you apart; it made you believe the lies you were told, obvious as they might be. It was nearly impossible to see your own fate while it was happening to you. It was only after, when what's done had been done, that one's vision cleared.

I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards.

When you change your name you change your fate as well.

Was it fate?" she asked. "Do we care?" he answered.

For some, witchery was a choice, but not for them.

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

Love is ancient and mysterious and you can't mess with it. If you do it just backfires and you meet with disaster.

Do you ever get the feeling that your life isn't really your own, and you've just sort of let things happen to you?

Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

Fate could twist you around and around if you weren't careful. Just when you thought you knew where you were headed, you'd wind up in the opposite direction, or flattened against a wall.

All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.

Franny whispered to Haylin all that she ever was and had been. She told him that she had always known what the future would be, and he said that if what she said was true, then she should have known a very long time ago that this was meant to be.

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.

Every man engaged in war tells himself he can alter what has been written, that it is he, not God, who is the maker of destiny, free to change what is meant to be.

He backed off, the way he always does, but it won't happen a second time. If he ever sees her again he's going to go right up to her and ask her to marry him, that's what he'll do. He's sick of letting fate roll right past him.

You cannot unwrite a death that has been written.

Hochman had been right, 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.

In the last few months, she'd had a lot of time to consider the state of mankind, and she'd decided that people actually had very few choices in their lives. Most things happened to you. Most things rolled right over you and then kept on going.

But then you like to tempt fate, don't you? Don't worry, it will all work out

I should have begun to worry then, for as fortune comes to you, so does it slip away.

It is simply the way of the world to lose everything you have ever loved. In this, we are like everyone else.

We make our own fate," Jet said, and then all at once she realized that they did. They could not control it, but they could choose how to respond to what happened.

We make our own fate. And then all at once she realized they did. They could not control it, but they could choose how to respond to what happened.