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Quotes About Fate

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!
~ Homer
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
~ Horace
Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
~ Horace
Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.
~ Horace
... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.
~ Hubert Selby, Jr.
The life you make is the life you will have. Your decisions are your blueprint.
~ Iimani David
That's life and you can't change anything, you know.
~ Irina Slutskaya
And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.
~ J. K. Rowling
I do believe everything happens for a reason, and I'm extremely grateful for that day because it led me into this life!
~ J. R. Martinez
Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.
~ J.R. Ward
Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?
~ James Branch Cabell
Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.
~ James Holman
Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.
~ James MacArthur
Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.
~ Jane Hamilton
What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.
~ Jeanette Winterson
No matter what happens, you will never lose me, I am forever yours, Kitten, in this life or the next.
~ Jeaniene Frost
They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
I'm not in charge of my life.
~ Jennifer Weiner
I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.
~ Jenny Frost
Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?
~ Joan Crawford
Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.
~ Jodi Picoult
My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our destiny becomes the accumulation of the choices that we make; the choices of which paths we took in life.
~ Steven Redhead