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Quotes About Fate

I am deeply reminded that our life's journey is a gift, not a given, and that we can never truly know how long the journey will last. All we can do is decide how it unfolds.
~ Sonia Choquette
I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.
~ Tom Baker
That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.
~ Peter Cushing
Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed by our parents and the last part being embarrassed by our children.
~ Ogden Nash
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
~ Oscar Wilde
Death's a path we're all on, son
~ Richard Widmark
Do not seek death. Death will find you.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
The choices that you make will shape your life forever.
~ Francis Capra
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
~ Thomas Browne
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
~ Graham Greene
Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.
~ Ana Monnar
The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.
~ Carl Sandburg
Life is hard, and then you die.
~ Erik Naggum
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.
~ George Orwell
When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake.
~ Harry S. Truman
All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
~ Natalia Makarova
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
~ Sophocles
Futility is the defining characteristic of life.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.
~ George Eliot
Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.
~ Haruki Murakami
The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.
~ Janet Fitch
Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.
~ John Adams
Why are you doing this to me? What kind of country did I save in my previous life?
~ Cheon Eunbi
...life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch. Saphira, from "Eragon
~ Christopher Paolini