Quotes About Fate

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.

Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.

And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.

I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.

We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.

Every time we mention the world, we must remember it is going to end.

The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust.

Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.

This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.

I always wonder, aside from even my name, what if my parents never split up? What if my mother never died? It swirls in my head all the time.

It's hard to believe, but anything can happen. Accidents do happen, unfortunately, it happened at the worst time.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.