Quotes About Fate

There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment from which to look back or from which to look ahead. I say 'one chooses' with the inaccurate pride of a professional writer who — when he has been seriously noted at all — has been praised for his technical ability, but do I in fact of my own will choose that black wet January night on the Common, in 1946, the sight of Henry Miles slanting across the wide river of rain, or did these images choose me?

It seemed after all that one never really missed a thing. To be a human being one had to drink the cup. If one were lucky on one day, or cowardly on another, it was presented on a third occasion.

it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening like a cast around his mistress.

You cannot control what you love—you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.

Everyday life seems so permanent and unshakable?but, as I was reminded by these writers, it can be destroyed by a single phone call.

Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour.

The old women gossiped as they always had done, squatting on the floor outside the urinoir, carrying Fate in the lines of their faces as others on the palm.

Im Leben der meisten Menschen gibt es einen Augenblick, in dem man nicht mehr zurück kann.

She had said, 'We're unlucky. We don't believe in God. So it's no use praying. If we did I could say beads, burn candles—oh, a hundred things. As it is, I can only keep my fingers crossed.

But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.

It's my destiny. Sometimes you're confronted with things in your life and you realise that you have to deal with them. You don't have a choice, because that's what you were born for

I am a loyal son of the Emperor, and I would never betray him, for I have already broken his heart and his greatest creation. I will accept my fate and though history may judge us traitors, we will know the truth. We will know we were loyal unto the end because we accepted our fate.

The headsman's axe knows not where it is to fall. It is simply a weapon directed by the hand of another. - Ahzek Ahriman

If there is one thing I have come to know in my long years of study, it is that there is no such thing as luck when it comes to the positioning of the universe's chess pieces. Your coming here was no accident. I was meant to train you. I have seen it.

The seeds of any outcome can always be traced back to some earlier moment, and to all those that preceded it. The further back we trace the path, the hazier the connections will become until the tiniest action might be said to have been the origin of any great event.

Ropes of destiny we cannot see rig this ship

Who are you and why are you here?' 'I'm here to kill you.' 'Oh. I knew there was something about you I liked.

Unity! Duty! And destiny!

If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures.

The mills of the gods grind slowly....but they grind to dust.

The irrevocable events of our lives happen in seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds.

He remembered a story he had once heard, about a god who had three sons—Whiteman, Blackman, and Gorilla. Blackman and Gorilla sinned against their father, and so the god took his favored son Whiteman to the west, along with all of his wealth, which Whiteman inherited. Gorilla and his kin went to live in the forests. Blackman remained where he was born, but was impoverished, yearning for the wealth inherited by Whiteman.

She would give him one more chance, Phasma decided. One last chance for FN-2187 to decide his fate.