Quotes About Fate

I have since wondered, of course, how my life would have been different if I'd decided to stay home that morning. This is what's called the enigma of history, and it can drive you out of your mind if you let it.

and kisses are a better fate than wisdom —e. e. cummings, "since feeling is first

There are probably a dozen perfect happy endings you could write. And a thousand bittersweet ones, and at least a million that are gloriously tragic. Alas, you only get to pick one.

There had always seemed to me a frightening amount of chance in the way that people chose their careers.

It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.

In Frank I have found something beyond me, beyond my understanding, this is where some incredible core of me is destined to be even if not in this life.

You can be passive and not make a decision that may save your life," he says, "or you can accept death as a possibility. That was the crux of the whole thing.

Everything happens for a reason, doesn't it? Even if you don't consciously agree with that statement, your brain sure does.

His feelings towards Feirrera were not only of contempt and hatred; there was also a sense of pity, a common feeling of self-pity of two men who shared the same fate. Yes, they were just like two ugly twins, he suddenly reflected as once he looked at Ferreira's back. They hated one another's ugliness; they despised one another; but that's what they were -- two inseparable twins.

He kills her in her own humor.

You don't have to die in the next year if you die this year.

We defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all. Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows what is't to leave betimes, let be. (Hamlet 5.2.217-224)

The one I love is the son of the one I hate! -Juliet p. 75

I go and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust. Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?

Every man has to die. Choosing oblivion is the only way of triumphing over this.

I am like them-I want life. I want to go back to Manchuria, to find my house and my go table. I will return to the Square of a Thousand Winds and wait for my Stranger. I know he will come ... one afternoon ... as he did that first time.

But I thought about all the things that had to have spun into place in order for us to be alive and for us to be right there, right then. I thought about the few thing we thought we knew and the billions of things we couldn't know, all spinning, whirling our there somewhere.

He supposed he'd always known he would not make old bones. Scriptures spoke plainly enough on that. For all they that take up the sword shall perish by the sword.

An intimate enemy, death, capricious and cruel, ultimately invincible.

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

One cannot take revenge upon history; history is its own revenge

The issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a government of the people, by the same people, can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.