Quotes About Fate

Fat men get knocked over by buses no earlier, nor later, than thin men. And I, for one, have buried most of my thin friends.

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

To the worldy man Karma is a stern Nemesis, to the spiritual man Karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

Calamity was ordained for man.

And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

Chances rule men and not men chances.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.