Quotes About Fate

The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

I plan, you plan, we plan, they plan, but Allah is the best of planners

It is only a matter of time before you will pay for your wrong-doings. To every action there is a reaction. When it comes back to you, the depth of your tragedy will be even greater than the wrongs you perpetuated. How do I know? It is the law of nature. It applies to every human being.

Who brought us together, if we were supposed to be apart?

Things happen, he had decided; they happen and they happen again, and anybody who tries to make sense out of it goes out of his mind.

The old witch bears many giants for sons, and all in the shape of wolves; and from this source are those wolves sprung. The saying runs thus: from this race shall come one that shall be mightiest of all; he that is named Moon-Hound; he shall be filled with the flesh of all those men that die, and he shall swallow the moon, and sprinkle with blood the heavens and all the air; thereof shall the sun lose her shining, and the winds in that day shall be unquiet and roar on every side.

Alive or dead, let Hel hold what she has.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better only god knows.

And now we go, you to your lives, and I to death, and which of us goes to the better only God knows

Now it is time that we are going, I to die and you to live; but which of us has the happier prospect is unknown to anyone but God

Ojalá Critón, que la mayoría fuera capaz de llevar a cabo los mayores males, con tal de que fuera capaz de realizar los mayores bienes, que entonces todo iría bellamente. Mas, por el contrario, de ninguna de las dos cosas son capaces, que no pueden hacer ni lo sensato ni lo insensato, sino tan solo lo que les salga a la ventura

If there were any way of sheltering from death's blows—I am not the man to recoil from it . . . But it is madness to think that you can succeed . .

Coincidence is the exception, not the rule.

I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Until he is dead, do not yet call a man happy, but only lucky.

No, you must let me say it. It's not a simple thing, you see. I loved you even before I met you. I loved the idea of you,'she said quietly. 'And to think you existed all this time. And it only took that horrid moment when everything went wrong for the both of us for our paths to finally cross. I would fall off that cliff again and again for the promise of you.

Wouldn't it be simply marvellous if he were to hang for his lies and calumnies against me--the very fate he had in mind for me?

People wait their whole lives for this. Sometimes half their lives pass before they find it. Sometimes they never do. They settle for something else. Or nothing at all. But we found each other now, Georgia. Do you know how lucky that makes us?

If she did not like her fate, it was up to her to change it.

A good many things happen without planning or consent. I wager no one consulted you before dubbing you a termagant.

May all future lairds of Clan MacLarin live out their days knowing they are marked to love, but not to live. Until a laird of the MacLarin line lives to see his firstborn draw breath, this curse shall never be broken.