Quotes About Fate

What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each page of the history.

Each man has many fates. Each choice produces a different path. Each path another choice. So be it. When a man has found his way through the maze of many lifetimes he will find harmony. Or he will remain in chaos lost in the maze. His choice alone determines." Orient

I say, Billy, what's the use in playing croquet when you're doomed? He says, Frankie, what's the use of not playing croquet when you're doomed?

I seem to be defying fate, or am I avoiding it?

Juan Narciso Ucañan went to his fate that Wednesday, and no one even noticed.

You don't choose anything important. It just happens. The only choice you have is if you'll make life's accidents work.

Which came out of the opened door—the lady or the tiger?

Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.

That's where proper stories begin, don't they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?

Storybook events come in threes. So, it seems, does Hell.

Death had no lips, but it was smiling.

Fatalism relieves the oppressor of all responsibility since the cause of wrong-doing, poverty, and the inevitable can be attributed to God.

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

The subject of gambling is all encompassing. It combines man's natural play instinct with his desire to know about his fate and his future.

Gabriele non vedeva dinanzi a sé che un inizio, il crocicchio dove le vie si dividevano. Cinque passi più avanti tutto era nebbia e tenebra. Ma avviene in ogni vita così: prima della decisione nulla è più irreale che la meta.

Il giorno della mia nascita, i tre personaggi destinati a devastare l'umanità erano già venuti al mondo: Hitler aveva diciotto anni, Stalin ventotto e Mao tredici. Ero cascata nel secolo sbagliato. Il loro.

El diamante llevado en la mano derecha neutraliza toda suerte de devenires». Por eso, en prueba de amor, los hombres afortunados tomaron la costumbre de regalar un diamante a sus prometidas para protegerlas de la plaga.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

On fortune's cap we are not the very button ...Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her favours?...Faith, her privates we. SHAKESPEARE

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death ... and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next. – SHAKESPEARE

he knew that he'd run into his destiny as a man in the dark walks into a wall.

As he went down the steps to the street, something was troubling him. Something about the Vietcong officer, his face, the expression of frozen astonishment. At the end of the street passers-by turned to look at the young lawyer who threw back his head and laughed at the madness of Fate. Absently he rubbed his left hand where the one-time enemy's hot nut oil in the tunnel had scalded him.

History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.