Quotes About Fate

if you're wise, you'll drop the odd coin in a cap, here and there. Because karma has teeth, all it takes is one really bad day, and we can all fall off the edge.

you're only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.

After all, you're only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.

You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.

The Benders had died in a helicopter explosion but were otherwise in perfect health.

Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so that election must be a matter of chance.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

I'd never have married', said Alexei to the sobbing Natalya, 'if I'd known our time was to be so short,

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

Coincidences mean you're on the right path.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being.

I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world.

You are in the place that was meant for you. Everything had to be arranged like this to get you here.

His father was an attorney in Paris. He met Sebastien's mother on a train to Amsterdam. There were no other seats. They were forced together and found they preferred it.

In his heart, some tiny piece of what hadn't happened would lodge.

If there is such a thing as fate, it's not that life is already written and we're simply unwitting figures in lines of spiritual code–it's that we are at the mercy of things imposed on us in childhood. — Simon Van Booy, The Presence of Absence (Godine, 2022)

How could two people know each other so intimately without have told the old stories. You get to an age where the stories don't matter anymore, and the stories once told so passionately become a tide that never quite reaches the point of being said. And there is no such thing as fate, but there are no accidents either.

I don't want you to love me. - Too late, mi chava.

Unfortunately, there are no guarentees in life.

your actions with holds your future

By a mere word tossed into the air he had escaped doom.

The fact is that a mere nothing, a thought, a whim, a particle of dust can change the course of a life.

L'amore capita, non si pianifica. E quando si ama si dimentica il passato e il futuro.