Quotes About Fate

Fate is what you make of it. You can make the best of it, or you can let it make the best of you.

She was a great beauty, and in his experience that would bring her both good fortune and grief.

Once you knew that death was walking alongside you, things came into focus, as they now did for Jet. With only seven days left she had best pay attention to every detail. She had already taken note that the lines on her right palm, showing the fate that she'd been given, and those on the left hand, the fate she had made for herself, were exactly the same; they had converged, as they always do at the end of a life.

I used to think there was a plan, a rough plan, but a plan all the same," the doctor admitted. "Now, I believe there are a thousand plans. Every breath, every decision, influences the plan, expands it, shortens it, twists it all around. It's always changing. Those of us lucky enough to make it through the multitude of possible diseases and accidents get old. We get tired. We close our eyes.

for a man's fate changed every day, depending upon his actions.

Maybe the most recent card is a message from the great beyond. Shelby can't stop thinking it might have been sent by Helene. She knows this is impossible; all the same, soon afterward she finds herself headed to Lewiston Street, where the Boyds live.

but fate is fate and it can often be what you least expect it to be.

You can't change what's meant to be

Statistics, Jenny had learned early on, never mattered when they applied to you, not if you were the one in a thousand who'd been struck by lightning

Fate was what you made of it. You could make the best of it, or it would make the best of you.

Shelby told her that if she had a hundred lifetimes she would want Sue to be her mother in every one, just as for a hundred lifetimes she would want James to be the one that stopped on the road that night. She would want him to stay here. She would want him to know her when no one else did.

Keep your eyes open," Isabelle told the siblings. "You may see her in the yard. 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.

As they held hands through the bars, Dias spied a black beetle burrowing through the wood of the jail. It made a horrid clacking sound. It was said there was no way to stop this beetle's ticking off the hours of a person's life, but Samuel Dias had never heard of a deathwatch beetle. He went over and stomped on it with his boot, crushing it completely

Love could ruin your life or set you free; it could happen by chance or be a well-planned decision.

He could have left out the fact that one had but a few hours to live, while the other had another life entirely still before him. This one. With her arms around her

Le monde manifeste autant d'indifférence aux amoureux qu'aux pauvres et aux malchanceux.

Time after time, the amazing fact is uncovered that sons and daughters are unconsciously re-enacting their parents fate— all the more intensely the less precise their knowledge of it.

Those who persecute others are warding of knowledge of their own fate as victims.

It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness -- however temporary, however flimsy -- of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.

She did not have time to wonder about his being late. He died bent over the sidewalk sign that stood out in front of the hardware store... He had not even had time to get into the store...

No way this could be seen as probable or possible, unless you think of a blow between the eyes, a sudden calamity. The stroke of fate that leaves a man a cripple, the wicked joke that turns clear eyes into blind stones.

Pa dobro. Bilo bi isto da se opet sretnemo. Ili ?ak i da se ne sretnemo. Ljubav koja se ne može iskoristiti, ljubav koja zna svoje mesto. (Neki bi rekli, ljubav koja nije realna, jer se nikada ne bi izložila opasnosti da joj zavrnu šiju, da o njoj pri?aju neslane viceve, niti da se tužno istroši). Ljubav koja ništa ne rizikuje, a ipak živi, kap po kap, kao podzemna žila. S težinom ove nove tišine, s takvim pe?atom.

When they reached the lobby and the doors opened I knew they were meant to be there, the four of them, alone.

Finally, I thought, I had reached the future that was no future.