Quotes About Fate

For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter. Anything can happen, though. Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things happen, and people have happy lives.

What is life, but one long risk?

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

The older I get, the more obvious it is that you're not really in control of your life, you're a part of a larger wave, no matter who you are.

Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

What you think determines your outlook on life. What you do determines your destiny.

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.

Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation.

There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.