Quotes About Fate

Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else.

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.

Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.

Each man's destiny is hung like a medallion around his neck.

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.

The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

Valar Morghulis - All men must die.

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

No man or woman can live another's fate

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.

A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?

If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

Every man is destined to win. Whether he wins or not is determined by whether or not he aligns himself with God's will.