Quotes About Fate

But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.

And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.

A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

Death is preferable -- it is a milder fate than tyranny.

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free.

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

Long tarries destiny, but comes to those who pray.

Nought is there in wealth that serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

Woe, woe for the doom that shall be--as in grasp of the foeman they fare! For a woe and a weeping it is, if the maiden inviolate flower Is plucked by the foe in his might, not culled in the bridal bower!

But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, he dieth not, unless the appointed time, the limit of his life's span, coincide; nor does the man who by the hearth at home sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.

God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

The base of justice is firmly set, and fate, the swordsmith, hammers out her sword beforehand.

There's nothing certain in a man's life except this: That he must lose it.

Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.