Quotes About Fate

As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip.

I can read significance into tiny, tiny things. If I'd met someone 10 years ago and not seen them again, and then I suddenly bumped into them, I'd feel that that was 'meant,' or there's a fate, you know?

We are all just the tip of a pinprick of the millions of things that had to happen in order for us to be here.

I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.

You know, I auditioned for 'Titanic.' Sometimes I muse on what would have happened. That would have been such a different life.

To me, a song like 'Demons' or the title 'Trouble Will Find Me' are acknowledgments that you can't really plan for life, and you can't plan for trouble.

To be honest, whenever I run away from something, I land up straight into it.

I love 'Titanic' and the idea that you're kind of rooting for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to survive despite the fact that you know that they're not going to.

I wouldn't go so far to say that destiny preserves me. I managed to survive and to succeed.

The present time, together with the past, shall be judged by a great jovialist.

The allegiance of the citizen, in the only sense in which the word can be tolerated in a republic, is due to the law. What idea other men may have of a law higher than the supreme law, I know not. Like the notion of the Stoics concerning Fate, it is perfectly incomprehensible.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all.

Priest: If truth is your absolute, you will die. If life is your absolute- Hippolytus: I've chosen my path. I'm fucking doomed.

There's a thing between us, an awesome f*cking thing, can you feel it? It burns. Meant to be. We were. Meant to be.

He alone is great Who by a life heroic conquers fate.

Having a worst regret betrays your belief that one misstep caused all your undeserved misfortune.

These Fatalists preach that Chance and Peril are merely masks for Fate's workings, nothing in themselves, and moreover that all the gods move at Fate's bidding. Their followers take comfort in thinking that their every deed is meant to be; it excuses all manner of meanness.

Lightning only strikes once," my dad said. "And when it hits, you know.

So what happens next?' 'Everybody dies, and the people who don't get married.' 'Like any other story, then.'

This was merely the malignant hand of coincidence.

The spikes above Livergate were a cruel reminder that his life now depended on mine, and it was by no means a foregone conclusion that I would live to see sunset tomorrow.

If I had said, I love you, she would have said it back; and everything would have changed. I might have saved her. I might have found a way—-I don't know what-—to keep her from her fate.