Quotes About Fate

What's that, forgone conclusion then you reckon, sir?' said the barman. 'Arsenal without a chance?' 'No, no,' said Ford, 'it's just that the world's about to end.

It is said that there is nothing surprising about the notion of, for instance, a person suddenly thinking about someone they haven't thought about for years, and then discovering the next day that the person has in fact just died.

the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again.

Today was also his two-hundredth birthday, but that was just another meaningless coincidence.

sapevano di essersi trovate insieme non di oro propria volontà, o per semplice coincidenza, ma per qualche incomprensibile bizzarria della fisica, quasi che i rapporti fra le persone fossero soggetti alle stesse leggi che governano i rapporti tra gli atomi e le molecole.

thousand seven hundred and nine to one against. By a totally staggering coincidence that is also the

The trouble with trying to make the right accident happen is that it won't. That is not what "accident" means. The accident that eventually occurred was not what he had planned at all.

The trouble with trying to make the right accident happen is that it won't. That is not what 'accident' means. The accident that eventually occurred was not what he had planned at all.

and was finally sent into tax exile, which is the usual fate reserved for those who are determined to make fools of themselves in public.

Once something actually happens somewhere in something as wildly complicated as the Universe, Kevin knows where it will all end up—where "Kevin" is any random entity that doesn't know nothin' about nothin'.

quattro persone che vi si trovavano a bordo si sentivano abbastanza inquiete, adesso che sapevano di essersi trovate insieme non di loro propria volontà, o per semplice coincidenza, ma per qualche incomprensibile bizzarria della fisica, quasi che i rapporti fra le persone fossero soggetti alle stesse leggi che governano i rapporti tra gli atomi e le molecole.

The trouble with trying to make the right accident happen is that it won't. That is not what accident means.

Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about yourself.

No civilization has survived forever. All move toward dissolution, one after the other, like waves of the sea falling upon the shore. None, including ours, is exempt from the universal fate.

If one death could delay the event by only five minutes … what flowers might therefore bloom? We were all doomed anyway.

Sometimes, a society can see its end approaching from afar and still not be able to adapt, like the Maya; at other times, the curtain drops without warning and the show is over. No civilization has survived forever. All move toward dissolution, one after the other, like waves of the sea falling upon the shore. None, including ours, is exempt from the universal fate.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.

When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.