Quotes About Fate

Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.

What else may hap, to time I will commit.

Meant to be?' It's just something people say so that they don't have to look at all the things they did wrong and wish they could take back. Only by the time they figure that out, it's too late.

Time is the mother and mugger of us all.

There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.

We only get to be one person; we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.

Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist. And a devil knelt over him and smiled.

Crazy. Karma is a b****. Gets you every time. Its not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!

I know that I will not die until my time comes.

You, too, will someday die, perhaps under inconvenient circumstances, at a time when you do not particularly wish to, and for causes that you cannot yet predict.

For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out.

Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible. She's not dead. Not this time.

Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.

But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

One thing I learned a long time ago is that even if you think you're meant to be with someone, that doesn't necessarily mean you get to be with them.

when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.

Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.

It's not the good that die young, it's the lucky.

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.

El saber no era bueno para las gentes vulgares y quizá podía descontentarles con la suerte de Dios les había señalado en este mundo, y Dios no tolera que nadie esté descontento de sus planes. Teníamos

Prov'dence don't fire no blank ca'tridges, boys.

It made him feel a little uncomfortable sometimes when he reflected that the good little boys always died. He loved to live, you know, and this was the most unpleasant feature about being a Sunday-school-book boy. He knew it was not healthy to be good.