Quotes About Fate

Death is evil. So the gods decided. Otherwise they would die.

La historia cuenta lo que sucedió; la poesía lo que debía suceder.

It's a funny thing about love. You can't make it right when it's wrong and you can't make it wrong when it's right, no matter how hard you try.

There's room for destiny! For miracles! There always is, and they always happen!

It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I've been moving towards it my whole life.

Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.

I've found it's harder for the family of the patient to accept what's happening. In most cases—not all—the dying person has accepted his fate.

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.

So the problem of Evil never really existed. To expect the universe to be benevolent was like imagining one could always win at a game of pure chance.

Faith in one's own destiny was among the most valuable of the gifts which the gods could bestow upon a man

Meteorites don't fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way." - John W. Campbell

No need to go to the dolphins," interjected Max Brailovsky. "One of the brightest engineers in my class was fatally attracted to a blonde in Kiev. When I heard of him last, he was working in a garage. And he'd won a gold medal for designing space-stations. What a waste!

it was an accident—that had killed Frank Poole.

It had to happen to someone. There is nothing exceptional about you, any more than there is about the first neutron that starts the chain reaction in an atomic bomb. It simply happens to be the first. Any other neutron would have served

It seemed unfair that this should have happened in his time, after all these centuries of rest. But men cannot bargain with Fate, and choose peace or adventure as they wish.

Rolf van der Berg was the right man, in the right place, at the right time; no other combination would have worked. Which, of course, is how much of history is made.

I've murdered something beautiful, Jimmy told himself. But then Rama had killed him.

The most trifling events can, in a mere moment of time, totally change the course of a man's life. And often it is not possible, even at the end, to decide whether the change was for better or for worse.

He was not the first man, Cliff Leyland told himself bitterly, to know the exact second and the precise manner of his death.

A lot happens when the prince and princess live happily ever after--the king, his father, dies, so he is now ruler and she his queen, they have their children, she conducts discreet affairs with Sir Lancelot, there are border uprisings...but still the story ended when the love toward which their destinies drove them came to mutual consciousness when they knew, each knowing the other knew, that they were meant for each other.

Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill. What does Dr. James Mortimer, the man of science, ask of Sherlock Holmes, the specialist in crime? Come in!