Quotes About Fate

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed.   —LEONARD COHEN

I cannot defeat cancer. Nobody defeats cancer. There is no winning or losing. There is no surviving or not surviving. There are only coin flips: heads or tails; benign or malignant; weight loss or bloating; morphine or oxycodone; extreme rescue efforts or Do Not Resuscitate; live or die.

Did you know that you can be killed by a benign tumor? Imagine that news headline: Native American poet killed by oxymoron.

In your past lies your future. [Acheron Parthenopaeus]

Hopeless implies that at one time there was hope. And that's another word I don't understand. Hope only exists for people who have choices. [Zarek]

I am the god Apostolos. The Harbinger of Telikos. The Final Fate of all. Beloved son of Apollymi the Great Destroyer. My will makes the will of the universe. [Apostolos / Acheron Parthenopaeus]

Nothing is ever truly set by fate. In one blink, everything changes. Even though it should be a clear, sunny day, the softest whisper into the wind can become a hurricane that destroys everything it touches. (Acheron)

It would have really cramped my future plans had I died. (Nick)

What kind of life have you lived little one? Where fair has anything to do with it? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.

Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation...or your death.

In the end, life makes victims of us all.

If everyone does as I've instructed, then things should work out the way they're meant to. (Acheron) And if we don't? (Talon) We're all screwed. (Acheron) Gee, Ash, you're just so damn comforting. (Nick) I try to be anyway. (Acheron) You fail admirably. (Nick)

They say when you're about to die, you see your entire life flash before your eyes. They lied. The only thing Nick Gautier could see flashing was Kyrian Hunter's vampire fangs.

I need dating advice. Fast...Julian, how did you meet your wife? Julian shrugged. My brother the sex god cursed me into a book for two thousand years. Grace got drunk on her birthday and summoned me out of it. Vane rolled his eyes. That's useless. Kyrian? What about you? I woke up handcuffed to Amanda. Vane could work with that. So I need to get a set of handcuffs?

You really are here. (Thanatos) Hair of the dog, baby. Sooner or later, we all dance with the devil. Tonight, it's your turn. (Zarek)

Everyone has a choice. (Kiara) No, princess, they don't. Choices aren't always up to us. Life and circumstances can shred even the stoutest soul. No matter how pure and untainted you think you are, I promise you that you, too, can be shoved into the darkness, just like we were. (Syn)

You don't deal with anything, Savitar. You sit out here in the sun, catching waves, spewing bullshit philosophy you don't follow. (Acheron) You're right. I gave up trying to affect my destiny a long time ago. But that's because every time I tried to change the future, I fucked it up worse. Eventually the rat gets tired of pulling the lever and sits down in his corner to lick his wounds. So if you're ready to hang it up, come sit on the beach with me. (Savitar)

You have a lot of faith in luck, don't you? (Shahara) Not at all. She's a vicious bitch who seldom knocks on my door. (Syn)

He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse...

So let me see if I got everything straight … This … means that we are somehow meant to be husband and wife. But if I refuse you, you spend the rest of your life impotent and alone? But I, on the other hand, am free to live my life however I see fit?" He nodded. "It really sucks to be you, doesn't it?

If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger.

May the gods damn you all! (Talon) The gods don't damn us, we damn ourselves by our words and deeds. (Acheron)

What will come, will come. It's how we deal with the shit in between that shapes us. (Savitar)

You can blame it all on fate and the universe, but in the end you alone decide if you're going to lie down and let hell take you under, or if you're going to stand strong in defiance of it all with your middle finger raised.