Quotes About Fate

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

Lo importante no es lo que nos hace el destino, sino lo que nosotros hacemos de él.

Edward ought, I suppose, to have gone to the Transvaal. It would have done him a great deal of good to get killed.

The gods to each ascribe a differing lot: Some enter at the portal. Some do not!

What a fool she was ever to have imagined that there might be some place in the world where she could sink to the earth with the knowledge that there were people round her who understood, who perhaps even admired and loved her! She was fated to carry loneliness about with her as a leper carries his scabs. 'No one can do anything for me: no one can do anything against me.

Things happen to people by accident

This was the wrong Magic-to begin by saying too late.

You never know, of course, when you write a book what its fate will be. Sink out of sight, soar to the sun–who knows. I love this quote from Frances Mayes. It pretty much sums up the Great Unknown of book writing.

What is life but this? Choices made early in a relationship determine the course.

At least the girls in stories were alive before they died.

Né e pazzi né e savi non possono finalmente resistere a quello che ha a essere: però io non lessi mai cosa che mi paressi meglio detta che quella che disse colui: Ducunt volentes fata, nolentes trahunt.

Laura, illustrious through her own virtues, and long famed through my verses, first appeared to my eyes in my youth, in the year of our Lord 1327, on the sixth day of April, in the church of St. Clare in Avignon, at matins; and in the same city, also on the sixth day of April, at the same first hour, but in the year 1348, the light of her life was withdrawn from the light of day, while I, as it chanced, was in Verona, unaware of my fate...

Everything works out for the best. It's one of those things we say to comfort ourselves. A phrase that gets repeated so often we cease to question the absence of logic inherent in the statement. Since we have no way of knowing what the alternate reality might have been, we have no way of knowing if things worked out of the best or not.

Francine Pascal

Past and future were out of her hands. One was finished and couldn't be undone. The other was beyond imagining.

If God wills that I die, then I die. No power on earth can change that.

It will all work out as it should.

Habían pasado veinticuatro horas y seguía dispersa y absorta jugando con el caos; como si su destino fuera un rompecabezas.

Life is a mess of accident, I find.

Momentous events, the stuff of a nation's history, were sometimes dependent on individuals commonly thought the least likely to set them in motion.

Prophets have a way of dying by violence.

She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.

Fortune passes everywhere.