Quotes About Fate

I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

Life punishes those who come too late.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

I think when you are named Noah, you are destined for a certain way of life.

In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.

We are all masters of our own destinies.

Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction

They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.

A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.

Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

You may not plan for some things in life but your destiny will take you there.

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.

Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate.

Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.