Quotes About Fate

He sighed. "Well, our advice was foolish. Now you will die when we die." "I would rather that, I think," I said.

Do we eventually become what we are originally meant to be?

We all slept with Herodotus. "For those cities that were great in earlier times must have now become small, and those that were great in my time were small in the time before.… Man's good fortune never abides in the same place.

What was wonderful was that even within the drunkenness of two a.m., each of you somehow recognized the more permanent worth and pleasure of the other. You may have arrived with others, will perhaps cohabit this night with others, but both of you have found your fates.

Good gardens often seem to have this quality, of order under a certain amount of pressure, wilderness just barely contained. They make something of the fact that nature seems to resist our forms, turn this fact of fate to good account.

It took them 13 years to get O. J. Simpson, but they got him. What goes around comes around.

There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.

With 'Fate's Right Hand,' I think I reached a level of completeness in forming and articulating ideas at around the same time I reached a place where I could match it with my singing voice. It was a kind of coming together.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

There's no control in life, is there? There's only one who's in control, and He'll take me when He wants me. I don't want to know about it. It's none of my business. But when it happens, I just ask that it won't be painful and that He forgives me my sins.

But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.

I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.

I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.

Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.

Seems it's my destiny for love to cause me misery.

I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny.

Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.

Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren't looking for it and didn't plan on it.

For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.

All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.

If not every one of these people, who were never perfect, is worthy of our love, at least their fate deserves our attention and our memory. They should talk and be talked about.

You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.