Quotes About Fate

But we survived, didn't we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it's a tragedy.

For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.

Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.

The Clayr saw me, the Wallmaker made me, the King quenched me, the Abhorsen wields me so that no Dead shall walk in Life. For this is not their path.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?'" Sabriel quoted, the words, redolent with echoes of Charter Magic, twining around her tongue like some lingering spice.

Every Clayr is given the gift to See some portent of her death, though not the death itself, for no human could bear that weight. Almost twenty years ago I Saw myself and your little dog, and in time I realized that this was the vision that foretold my final days.

Everyone and everything has a time to die.

I could go into Death?' asked Clariel. 'Anyone can go into Death,' said Mogget, with a smirk. 'Coming back again is the difficult part.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path choose the walker?

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

discoveries happened because they needed to happen. He

If you keep walking back from good luck, he thought, you'll come to bad luck.

All the planning in the world, men, can't compare to perfectly timed good luck.

A flip of some giant coin and he was the loser.

Today I've made a major decision. I'm never going to die.

You don't want to end up in Troy," the

For Baudelaire, man's poetic fate is to be the mirror of immensity; or even more exactly, immensity becomes conscious of itself, through man. Man for Baudelaire is a vast being.

Destiny has chained you to me forever!

THE ONLY MADNESS GREATER THAN CHALLENGING FATE IS ACCEPTING IT.

Life is essentially a fatal disease of indeterminate duration.

I had survived, and I should be dead. I was haunted by my own life.

I drive away those who pay to see me by foretelling their futures, and I will foretell yours. You are young now, and strong. But before the world has wound itself ten times more about the sun you shall be less strong, and you shall never regain the strength that is yours now. If you breed sons, you will engender enemies against yourself. If-- Enough! I said. What you are telling me is only the fortune of all men.

Yours is a race of pawns," Tzadkiel told me. "You move forward only, unless we move you back to begin the game again. But not all the pieces on the board are pawns.

The second came not as they are ordinarily born—that is, head foremost as a man climbs from a lower place into a high—but feet foremost as a man lets himself down into a lower place. His grandmother was holding his brother, not knowing that two were to be born, and for that reason his feet beat the ground for a time with no one to draw him forth. Because of this his mother called him John Sandwalker.