Quotes About Fate

I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

They hanged Haman on the gallows.

Wherever you may be, death will overtake you, though you should be in raised-up towers.

But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping.

One event happeneth to them all.

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter.

Today's story writes tomorrow's history

Mony a one for him maks mane,But nane sall ken where he is gane:O'er his white banes, when they are bare,The wind sall blaw for evermair.

She buried him before the prime,She was dead herself ere evensong time.God send every gentlemanSuch hounds, such hawks, and such leman.

Quos [or Quem] deus vult perdere prius dementat [Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad].

Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is not death but the inability to do what should be done at the right time

if the wealthiest fraction of a society feel that they can afford to insulate themselves from the common fate and buy their way out of the common institutions, that is also a form of social isolation.

To put it another way, there are lots of things happening to us whether we believe in them or not.

Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution.

There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.

That's what the gods do," he says, "they spin threads of ruin through the fabric of our lives, all to make a song for generations to come.

There are none so distant that fate cannot bring them together.

I saved her only to hear her die.

There is only chance in this world, chance and physics.

Maybe living was no more than getting swept over a riverbed and eventually out to sea, no choices to make, only the vast, formless ocean ahead, the frothing waves, the lightless tomb of its depths.

that a thousand choices were implicit in a single moment.

There is only chance in this world, chance and physics. Anyway