Quotes About Fate

We're all going to die, love. I don't know anyone who's gotten out of this life alive

He understood that she'd always believed herself cursed, his angel. That she lived on stolen time. That she deserved nothing..

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

There's no such thing as chance;And what to us seems merest accidentSprings from the deepest source of destiny.

What one refuses in a minuteNo eternity will return.

In thy breast are the stars of thy fate.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

It is his incurable illness to regard the accidental as necessary.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.

Mußte denn das so sein, daß das, was des Menschen Glückseligkeit macht, wieder die Quelle seines Elendes würde?

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.

Por qué será que lo que colma de felicidad al hombre es al mismo tiempo la fuente de sus desgracias?

God of heaven! and is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason, or after he has lost it?

Part of that Power, not understood, Which always wills the Bad, and always works the Good.

Es que tenía que ser así, que lo que hace la felicidad del hombre sea también la fuente de su desdicha?

Estará escrito en el destino del hombre que sólo puede ser feliz antes de tener razón o después de haberla perdido? ¡Pobre insensato! Envidio tu locura, envidio el laberinto mental en que te pierdes.