Quotes About Fate

It hath been observed, by wise men or women, I forget which, that all persons are doomed to be in love once in their lives.

it was the universal opinion of all Mr Allworthy's family that he was certainly born to be hanged.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

Who was she, what was she that she should hold herself superior? What view of life, what design upon fate, what conception of happiness, had she that she pretended to be larger than this large occasion? If she would not do this, then she must do great things, she must do something greater.

You were to suffer your fate. That was not necessarily to know it.

What is character but the determination of incident?

She was all too sunk in the inevitable, and the abysmal.

The vice in the air, otherwise, was too much like the breath of fate.

It was as if her doom so floated her on that she couldn't stop.

That's the least part of it—after it nothing will matter.

There is always a place for chance in things.

You were reserved for my future

He had brought home to her, and always by remarks that were really quite soundless, the conception, hitherto ungrapsed, of some complete use of her wealth itself, some use of it as a counter-move to fate.

At a time when his thoughts had been a good deal of a burden to him her sudden arrival, which promised nothing and was an open-handed gift of fate, had refreshed and quickened them, given them wings and something to fly for. Poor Ralph had been for many weeks steeped in melancholy; his outlook, habitually somber, lay under the shadow of a deeper cloud.

He found all things come back to the question of what he personally might have been, how he might have led his life and turned out, if he had not so, at the outset, given it up.

God himself can't change the future and still know what's going to happen.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep. We don't know how to let go. We're like a Jack-in-the-box perched on top of a spring and the more we struggle the harder it is to get back in the box.

Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here it's different. Here every man is potentially a zero. If you become something or somebody it is an accident, a miracle.

I decided to let myself drift with the tide, to make not the least resistance to fate, no matter in what form it presented itself. Nothing that happened to me thus far had been sufficient to destroy me; nothing had been destroyed but my illusions(...)

We create our fate every day that we live.

Every man has his own destiny;the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him

We have scholars galore, and kings and emperors, and statesmen and military leaders, and artists in profusion, and inventors, discoverers, explorers - but where are the great lovers? After a moment's reflection one is back to Abelard and Heloise, or Anthony and Cleopatra, or the story of the Taj Mahal. So much of it is fictive, expanded and glorified by the poverty-stricken lovers whose prayers are answered only by myth and legend.