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Quotes About Fate

The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.
~ Yoko Ono
Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.
~ George Saunders
The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.
~ Hannah Arendt
Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.
~ Hannah Whitall Smith
Falling in love was not really a choice; it just struck me.
~ Helen Fisher
Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
~ James Russell Lowell
For me and my wife, it was love at first sight.
~ Jeff Bridges
All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.
~ John Masefield
Love... doesn't happen every day. It doesn't happen at all for some people
~ Josh Lanyon
He and I…we share a bond. Not love, exactly. It goes beyond that. He is mine as surely as sun follows moon across the sky. Mine before ever I knew he existed. Mine until death and beyond.
~ Juliet Marillier
Love just happens, you know.
~ Kabir Bedi
One cannot always marry the person one loves.
~ Kate Mosse
Love came when you weren't looking, except in the case of millions who found mates on Match.com, but, hey. It sounded good.
~ Kristan Higgins
You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do.
~ Kristin Cashore
Love is not something you plan, it just happens.
~ Laura Hillman
But from the beginning, I knew that in a world where destiny was dead, I was destined, forever, to love him. Even though he didn't - though he couldn't - ever love me back.
~ Lauren Oliver
I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me.
~ Leonard Cohen
Sometimes people don't have to make you love them...you just do, and there's no help for it.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis wrote that fate and soul are two names for the same principle.
~ Liz Greene
Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.
~ Lord Byron
Love is a fever," she said. "And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not.
~ Lorrie Moore
It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.
~ Marcel Proust
A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.
~ Marjane Satrapi