Quotes About Fate

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer, Let none think themselves out of her reach.

For not forgetful is the high gods' doom Against the sons of carnage: all too long Seems the unjust to prosper and be strong, Till the dark Furies come, And smite with stern reversal all his home, Down into dim obstruction--he is gone, And help and hope, among the lost, is none!

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.

Most people appear to live an unexamined life, cruising through the years without much reflection about what it means, and/or taking what life hands them and believing it's all predestined.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

Given the gruesome fate of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, and the fact that five of the previous 12 Romanov rulers were also murdered, it is easy to regard Russia's imperial dynasty as cursed.

We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.

I think I'm designed to regret everything.

I don't have long-standing regrets; they pass as I see how things are meant to be.

Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.

I always say that things are meant to be and everything happens for a reason, so I don't have any regrets.

I don't really believe in regrets. I think everything happens as it should, and everything is an opportunity to learn.

Students like my son, who has a place at university which is dependent on getting the right grades, must place his fate in the hands of two groups of people: teachers and a faceless team at Ofqual, the exam regulator.

I'm petrified of reincarnation because, you know, I like being me.

Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let's say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma.

When a film is made, its release is decided by its destiny. Nothing is bigger than that, not even me.

It's so weird how our existence hinges on just absolute crazy chance, but it feels so essential. It's like, 'Nothing would be here if you weren't here,' because you are the centre of your universe.

People are going to hire you, or they're not, and there's only so much you can do to hedge your bets.

A man's character is his fate.

I do believe there is someone out there for everyone. I don't know what is taking him so long, he needs to find his way to me, it is about time.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

When love hits you, it hits you and you don't expect it.