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Quotes About Fate

Whoever has been spared the worst is lucky.
~ Seamus Heaney
Wise conduct is the key to happiness. Always rule by gods and reverence them. Those who overbear will be brought to grief. Fate will flail them on its winnowing floor And in due season teach them to be wise.
~ Seamus Heaney
Fate goes ever as fate must.
~ Seamus Heaney
This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal; it is one that is caught in the grip of an unbreakable pattern.
~ Sean Carroll
The physical notion of determinism is different from destiny or fate in a subtle but crucial way: because Laplace's Demon doesn't actually exist, the future may be determined by the present, but literally nobody knows what it will be.
~ Sean Carroll
Since the dawn of time every one will die, Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.
~ Wen Tianxiang
The first time I saw you,' he says, 'I knew we belonged together.
~ Garth Stein
Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.
~ Judith McNaught
The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
~ Ovid
I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.
~ Alexander Chee
Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it.
~ Alexander Smith
If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun
~ Alexandra Potter
Accidents can happen at any time.
~ Alistair Overeem
And time brings down what is both strong and tall. But plants new set to be eradicate, And buds new blown, to have so short a date, Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate.
~ Anne Bradstreet
They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter.
~ Arundhati Roy
Isn't it a coincidence that you and I are both alive at the same time?
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.
~ Billy Joel
Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
~ Camille Paglia
you don't deal with time. Time deals with you.
~ Cecil Dawkins
I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.
~ Charlize Theron
You shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill.
~ Chill Wills
I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.
~ China Machado
Trains are all the ways you miss each other-wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.
~ Daisy Whitney
Death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.
~ Dean Koontz