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Quotes About Fate

The question,' she replied, 'is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I am, unfortunately, the Hero of Ages.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I am what the universe made me to be, my dear.
~ Brandon Sanderson
A hero does not choose her trials
~ Brandon Sanderson
Everyone is either happy or dead.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The question," she replied, "is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The Hero of Ages shall be not a man, but a force. No nation may claim him, no woman shall keep him, and no king may slay him. He shall belong to none, not even himself.
~ Brandon Sanderson
We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Unfortunately, Alanik, the game takes no care for your interest. It plays you either way
~ Brandon Sanderson
Cadsuane, do you believe that I could kill you? Right here, right now, without using a sword or the Power? Do you believe that if I simply willed it, the Pattern would bend around me and stop your heart? By . . . coincidence?
~ Brandon Sanderson
Spin, you'll die." "Yes," I whispered. "But I'll win anyway.
~ Brandon Sanderson
And it came to pass in those days, as it had come before and would come again, that the Dark lay heavy on the land and weighed down the hearts of men, and the green things failed, and hope died. - from Charal Drianaan te Calamon, The Cycle of the Dragon
~ Brandon Sanderson
I'm going to kill him," Rand possionately, leaning in. "I'm going to end the Dark One. We will never have true peace so long as he is there, lurking. I'll rip open the prison, I'll enter it and I'll face him. I'll build a new prison if I have to, but first, I'm going to try to end all of this. Protect the Pattern, the Wheel, for good.
~ Brandon Sanderson
We may not be the ones to kill Steelheart. But even if we fail, we might be the cause of his death. Someday.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Do not look to the executioner for the reason his blade falls. And
~ Brandon Sanderson
There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Sometimes, people just have to die.
~ Brandon Sanderson
There always seemed to be a reason Kaladin survived when those he'd tried to help died. Some men might have seen that as a blessing, but he saw it as an ironic kind of torment.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Did people what got killed in a flood expect an apology from God? God did as God wished. You simply hoped to not get on His worse side. Kinda like the bouncer at the club with the pretty sister.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Now he could never change his mind, and there was a kind of tragedy to that.
~ Brandon Sanderson
But still, my 'freedom' is that of a leaf. Dropped from the tree, I just blow on the wind and pretend I'm in charge of my destiny.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You think he'll live?' Tonk Fah asked. 'He just fell out the third-story window, plummeting toward certain doom,' Denth said. 'Of course he'll live!
~ Brandon Sanderson
I could have traveled quickly. But all men have the same ultimate destination.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The more she thought of it, the more that luck seemed the opposite of being awesome. One was something you did; the other was something that happened to you no matter what you did. Course
~ Brandon Sanderson