Quotes About Fate

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.

Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.

Life is a series of random collisions.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

The world ... is full of people who never knew what hit 'em, their lives are over before they wake up.

Life as we know it is a death sentence.

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice.

... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.

The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can't escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die.

A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?

No one escapes from life alive.

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.