Quotes About Fate

Non per vendetta, mai per stupore, tutt'al più per caso.

In my unfortunately infrequent encounters with real passion, I'm rarely as careful as I ought to be. The rationalization goes something like: With all the bullets and mortar rounds I've survived, I must be immune to sexually transmitted diseases. Stupid, I know. More likely, fate will indulge its taste for irony by killing me with AIDS os some other unpleasant alternative.

the young man's blindness irreparable, his mistakes immutable, the consequences irreversible.

Is there any teacher better, more patient, more determined than fate?

Shoganai," I said. Literally, There is no way of doing it. "Yes," he said, nodding. "Elsewhere they have Cest la vie, or That's life.

Death catches everyone eventually, and I had never harbored any illusions about its ability to catch me. That it had hesitated so long to do so seemed born more of a desire to mock me than of any real inclination to wait. Death had tired of that game, and had finally moved in to collect what we all owe.

Of course there is a slight chance that somebody might want to give the Celestial Bookmaker a heart attack.

At some critical point, accommodation and cooperation replace violence and exploitation, or humanity's fate is delivered into the hands of barbarians.

How awful is it to be dead? It would be better to be the lowest, most impoverished, slave-driven nobody on earth than to be the king of the dead in gloomy Hades. And there is no turning back and no way to improve one's lot. That is the fate of virtually all who die.

and over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year;

What's ka?" Eddie's voice was truculent. "I never heard of it. Except if you say it twice you come out with the baby word for shit.

All I know is what's past is past, and what's ahead is ahead. The second is ka, and takes care of itself.

Because ka was like a fish, ka was like a sand dune, ka was like a wheel that didn't want to stop but only to roll on and on, crushing whatever might happen to be in its path. A wheel of many spokes.

Time belongs to the Tower.

God doesn't have a plan, He throws pickup sticks.

But eventually, something will happen. Something always does. And when it does... I will come to Mother.

Coincidence has been cancelled, honey," Susannah said. "What we're living in these days is more like the Charles Dickens version of reality.

Because—dig it—when it comes to death, what can you do but laugh?

Forty seemed about right, and it occurred to me that it's too bad for a fella to die at forty, a real shame. It's a man's most anonymous age.

It's from Balzac. 'Behind every great fortune there is a crime.' That was the theme I saw, even though the fortune ran through his fingers long before he was shot down in Cicero.

I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other.

Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.

Ka-mai, yes. Not just a fool, but ka's fool - a fool of destiny.

Go slow past the Drawers, gunslinger. Watch for the taheen. While you travel with the boy, the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.