Quotes About Fate

There are several kinds of happiness, Washington. Sometimes it is not for us to choose, or even understand, the one granted us.

Ain't no man can outrun his fate.

What is luck but something made to run out.

I was born with a ring of luck at my neck. Luck is its own kind of manacle, perhaps.

There was but a thread between life and death, and he had stumbled blamelessly onto the wrong side of it.

Some people fall out of the third floor of a building and end up with nothing more than a black-and-blue mark on their backside. While others take one wrong step on their way down the stairs and wind up with a cast.

To live is to suffer, to live is to sweat, to live is an ache you can't fucking forget. To live is to yearn, to live is to burn, to live is to fucking screw up and wait for the fate to turn.

To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body.

Sometimes things happen for a reason...

You are always in the right place at exactly the right time, and you always have been.

Par quelle triste fatalité l'homme ne peut-il jamais jouir à la fois de toutes les facultés de sa nature, de toutes les perfections dont elle n'est susceptible qu'à des âges différents?" (Mardi 9 octobre, 1849)

Mortals make elaborate plans, but GOD has the last word.

I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.

Born in a goddam hotel room and dying in a hotel room!

Everything does work out in the end, one way or another.

Human affairs are not governed ultimately by historical events, fate, or chance, but by God...Divine purpose moving steadily from beginning to end.

Had Lucky gotten lucky after all?

Death is a debt we all must pay.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Yet do I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought,exaltation in the chanting of the Muses;I have been versed in the reasonings of men;but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Account no man happy till he dies.