Quotes About Fate

The slave is doomed to worship Time and Fate and Death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. But, great as they are, to think of them greatly, to feel their passionless splendour, is greater still. And such thought makes us free men; we no longer bow before the inevitable in Oriental subjection, but we absorb it, and make it a part of ourselves.

The circumstances of men's lives do much to determine their philosophy, but, conversely, their philosophy does much to determine their circumstances.

There Self must die; there the eagerness, the greed of untamed desire must be slain, for only so can the soul be freed from the empire of Fate.

Si nous n'avions pas peur de la mort , je ne crois pas que serait jamais née l'idée d'immortalité.

Zeno believed that there is no such thing as chance, and that the course of nature is rigidly determined by natural laws.

the circumstances of men's lives do much to determine their philosophy, but, conversely, their philosophy does much to determine their circumstances.

Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.

I have no choices left to me at all. I shall marry my cousin, sire children, and do all that is expected of me.

I am incapable of a profound remark on the workings of Destiny

I am incapable of a profound remark on the workings of Destiny. It seems to get up early and go to bed very late, and it acts most generously toward the people who nudge it off the road whenever they meet it.

Shall we call coincidence what God calls providence?

What if you were to die today... Tomorrow is not a promise but a chance.

A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.

Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.

It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus.

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.

Most of the things in your life are not in your control - the family you are born into, the parents, and the siblings you have. It is only friendship and love that you create for yourself in this lifetime.

I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.

Penalties are like the lottery and you miss them when luck is not on your side.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

I now believe in love at first sight. Especially after it's happened to me.

I met Ant through a mutual friend and it was basically love at first sight.

I wouldn't ever have believed I would marry so young, but it was love at first sight, so there was no point in holding back for the sake of it.