Quotes About Fate

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish.

You're always just one punch away from getting hurt. But look, if it's going to happen, it's going to happen. I think I'm going to walk out of this sport of boxing when I think it's the right time.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment.

I think about people whose lives maybe hadn't turned out as well as me and Joel's lives, and I just think it's just pure luck and the grace of God. I also think we were lucky to have each other as brothers.

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

It seems at times fate knocks on people's door, and they are too afraid to pursue it.

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

I'm a believer in God, I'm a believer that he puts us where he wants us to be.

The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything's fixed not in your favour.

At the end of the day, what you're able to work on is what comes by you, what sort of floats by you.

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.

You always need a bit of fortune in life.