Quotes About Fate

from Volkheimer to Werner.

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

Go," says Volkheimer again. Werner looks at him a last time: his torn jacket and shovel jaw. The tenderness of his big hands. What you could be.

Wherever her great-uncle is, could he have survived this? Could anyone? Has she?

Death's success rate has been 100% so far, yet we still choose to call it a mystery.

The despair doesn't last. Marie-Laure is too young and her father is too patient. There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day toward success or failure. But no curses.

My God, there are none so distant that fate cannot bring them together.

I'm only alive because I have not yet died.

What you realize, ultimately, when you have nothing to lose, is that even though the world can be kind to you, and reveal its beauty through the thin cracks in everything, in the end it will either take you or leave you.

They want to hear that their kids will take over their world. No one wants to hear that the future is already determined. Death's success rate has been 100% so far, yet we still choose to call it a mystery.

he wondered if such things were born into people. If perhaps we cannot alter who we are—if the place we come from dictates the place we will end up.

Death's success rate has been 100% so far, yet we still choose to call it a mystery.

He was about twenty-six when he died

Gnaeus escaped the battle, but was quickly caught and killed.

What was certain, though, is that sheer good luck—the untimely elimination

Octavian merely replied: "That's a matter for the carrion birds to decide.

As so often happens in human affairs, fate intervened at the moment of victory and destroyed the best-laid plans.

When things are as bad as they can be, fate finds a way to deliver another blow.

O wretched valour, you were but a name, And yet I worshipped you as real indeed; But now it seems you were but Fortune's slave.

Either the future is subject to chance—in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other—or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.

Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it." --Quintus Tullius Cicero

All was lost now. All the dreams of whatever God had created for them, lost. He wondered in that moment why it was that he had been born and survived the war, only to meet this fate, here, in his home country. Maybe he had never had a life, but was only a figurine played out on a master game board.

You are meant to be here. There are no coincidences. It's all happening the way it was meant to be.

Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.