Quotes About Fate

I guess our fate is up to us now. And we've been there before, of course. There's something quite comforting about it in a strange way. We've learnt a few things. We know we've got a few things going for us. A bit of imagination, a bit of guts sometimes, a bit of spark.

Death comes walking across the countryside swinging that scythe, and he might get you or he might not.

In the long run we are all dead

he, indeed, who gave fewest pledges to Fortune, has yet suffered her heaviest visitations.

I DON'T BELIEVE IN DESTINY. WE ARE NOT BORN TO BECOME ONE THING OR ANOTHER, left to follow helplessly a course that was charted for us by some unseen hand, a mysterious alignment of the stars that pulls us in a certain direction, bestowing happiness on some and misfortune on others.

What an ingrate I would be to curse the fate that concludes the blessed life I've led.

Other people make plans. We make life-or-death risk assessments. Often, our illness mandates that we play it safe, not tempt fate. But if we don't take risks, we lose out on all those life-affirming experiences that define us as human.

The so-called Negroes should not be this type of people, since they have the Bible, which is full of prophecies concerning the fate of those who rejected and opposed God's prophets. Allah's warning in the Holy Qur-an is very plain against the disobedient and opposers to His Last Apostle.

The moment their eyes meet, the moment their hands touch. That certainty. That recognition. You. You are the one. This is what it feels like. Nothing, as it turns out, can take the place of love.

This island chooses people, Aunt Greta said. It chose Bo and me, and I think it's chosen you as well.

You just didn't know what life was going to hand you. You didn't know what love you would find, what love would be snatched away.

We didn't choose love; it chose us, right or wrong—and realizing this, for Brenda, was a kind of answered prayer. Love was all that mattered.

The most underrated force at work in the universe is that of coincidence. And yet who among us hasn't been at its mercy?

The most underrated force at work in the universe is that of coincidence.

We'll live," Kodiak says as he pulls himself out of the water, lying on his side and wiping water from his thick hair. "We'll get cancer in our twenties, but we'll survive at least until then." "Was that a joke?" I ask, arranging myself next to him and wringing out the hem of my shirt. "Yes. It was a joke, and also it was true. It is a Dimokratia kind of joke.

Don't be blind to the vagaries of fate just because everything is going well at present.

Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.

But of course Anton turned out to be brave and strong, and so he died while he was still unlikable.

Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.

But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

"Guess now who holds thee?"—"Death," I said. But thereThe silver answer rang—"Not Death, but Love."

We cannot choose where we come from, but we can choose where we are going, and we can choose the routes we're willing to take to try to get there.

The Merlin's sense of humor would be the death of me yet.

The world is a wheel, and we are all broken on it.