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Quotes About Fate

Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.
~ Chanakya
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.
~ T. S. Eliot
Life is a rotten lottery.
~ John Waters
Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.
~ John William Draper
The call to adventure is the point in a person's life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.
~ Joseph Campbell
Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I think everything in life happens for a reason. I always think there's room for me to improve as a person.
~ Kerry Washington
I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny.
~ Kristen Stewart
It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.
~ Albert Camus
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
~ Andre Malraux
Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.
~ Arthur Golden
In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.
~ Baroness Orczy
Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Control your destiny or somebody will.
~ Jack Welch
Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.
~ Joe Queenan
No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
~ William S. Burroughs
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
~ William Shakespeare
Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
~ Robin Hobb
Being given chances, and not taking them. That's what life is all about.
~ Ron Greenwood
We all owe death a life.
~ Salman Rushdie
Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?
~ Saul Williams