Quotes About Fate

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.

Look upon OedipusThis is the king who solved the famous riddle [of the Sphinx].

All that is and shall be,And all the past, is his [Zeus's].

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

War never slays a bad man in its course,But the good always!

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.

Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.

We live behind the closed doors of our own destiny.

All the roads of life end in death.

Listen to the advice of your own Destiny! All is a given!

Who has chosen this kind world for us and why?

We will never be more that we have been destined to be!

Of how much light will my destiny's eyes have to become aware until it will come true in death?

We will never be more than we are meant to be!

A avut noroc, a avut doi baieti, dar in cele din urma nu el a avut cel mai mare noroc, ci fiicele sale. Ele au avut norocul imens de a nu se fi nascut!

Sow a thought, reap an act; Sow an act, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a character; Sow a character, reap an eternal destiny.

Mensch tracht, Gott lacht. (Man plans, God laughs.) —Yiddish proverb