Quotes About Fate

And then I realized that all humans were created for death. They were all born as little struggling innocents, learning to live before they knew what it was about.

It's the doom of beings to read patterns in the stars, to give them names, to cherish their slowly shifting positions and clusters. But the stars never say a word.

I left the splendid city of Venice with her glittering palaces and I withdrew to the chilly mountain sanctuary, and I knew that the fate of Amadeo was sealed.

You forgot Oxalá, but he never forgot you.

end. Before I even meant to do

I wonder if she had seen the future-that the Talamasca File on the Mayfair Witches would swallow Aaron's life, as surely as the Vampire Lestat swallowed mine.

Amadeo was destined for me.

He was dying, no matter what his visions had told him, and no slight tender kiss of blood could save him now.

Do you think we find our destiny somehow, no matter what happens? I mean, do you think that even as immortals we follow some path that was already marked for us when we were alive?

I can't think of the fate of these pages, except that they are very much for her, as I mentioned to you before, and if I'm allowed to title them I think it will be Symphony for Sybelle.

The threads of your life, they aren't woven into any certain fabric.

I fell in love with Peter at that precise instant. I don't suppose many other women know the exact moment the rest of their lives began.

He would die at her hands. He knew it, with sudden lightening clarity. The man he had struggled so hard to become, the all-powerful, all-knowing Simon of Navarre, would be destroyed by a woman's heart.

I'll see you in hell." "Ah, but you'll be there first, my dear. Move.

It didn't matter that the world considered the Rohans to be profligates and degenerates—the moment they found their soul mates they became, if not the epitome of righteous behavior, at least excellent husbands.

dying, you don't get to see how it all turns out. Questions you have asked will go unanswered forever. Will this one of my children settle down? Will that one learn to be happier? Will I ever discover what was meant by such-and-such?

you can think back on your life and almost believe it was laid out for you in advance, like this plain clear path you were destined to take even if it looked like nothing but brambles and stobs at the time. You know?

The trouble with dying is you don't get to stay around and see how everything turns out.

apparently you grow to love whom you're handed.

We live such tangled, fraught lives, he thought, but in the end we die like all the other animals and we're buried in the ground and after a few years we might as well not have existed. This should have depressed him, but instead it made him feel better. The light turned green and he started driving again.

The trouble with dying is you don't get to see how everything turns out. You don't know the ending.

The trouble with dying is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending.

When Bitsy looked back on Jin-Ho's arrival, it didn't seem like a first meeting. It seemed that Jin-Ho had been traveling toward them all along and Bitsy's barrenness had been part of the plan, foreordained so that they could have their true daughter.

Each life is a kind of assignment, I believe, Eliza told her. You're given this one assigned slot each time you come to earth, this little square of experience to work through. So even if your life has been troubled, I believe, it's what you're meant to deal with on this particular go-round.