Quotes About Fate

Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment.

Two are born to cross their paths, their lives, their hearts. If by chance, one turns away, they are they forever lost.

If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him.

The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.

When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it.

is love at first sight truly possible?

We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.

Humans are here today because our particular line never fractured—never once at any of the billion points that could have erased us from history." We

For the most part our fate and comfort—and even our eye color—are determined not by individual genes but by complexes of genes working in alliance.

I suppose all our lives must be at the end of a long chain of improbable coincidences

Exercise regularly. Eat sensibly. Die anyway.

I wonder where we go when we die?" "…Pittsburgh?" "You mean if we're good or if we're bad?

My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin

Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?! Who are YOU to question my behavior, HUH??? What gives you the right?! Hobbes: Santa makes the toys, so he gets to decide who to give them to. Calvin: Oh.

Who can gauge all the ways in which the Gods who've created you craft your life?

are we just avoiding our one true destiny when we do that, averting our glance from Philip Larkin who waits for us in an undertaker's coat?

Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when I leave this world I shall fall forever into oblivion, or into the hands of an angry God, without knowing which of the two will be my lot for eternity. Such is my state of mind, full of weakness and uncertainty. The only conclusion I can draw from all this is that I must pass my days without a thought of trying to find out what is going to happen to me.

Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.

Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of others those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows, and looking at each other with grief and despair await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.

Nu m-ai fi cautat, daca nu m-ai fi gasit

Let us imagine a number of men in chains, and all condemned to death, where some are slaughtered each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows, and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of men.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.

It's a wicked life, but what the hell, the stars ain't falling down.

There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.