Quotes About Fate

It is on this world that we developed our passion for exploring the Cosmos, and it is here that we are, in some pain and with no guarantees, working out our destiny.

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes? —A question put to Pythagoras by Anaximenes (c. 600 B.C.), according to Montaigne

I believe in Spinoza's God, who revealed himself in the harmony of all being, not in the God who concerns himself with the fate and actions of men"—a more subtle religious view embraced by many theologians today.

Anatomy is not destiny, but it is not irrelevant either.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.

I wanted death after that, but death don't come when you want it, it comes when you don't want it.

To Fate, a fickle mistress whose sense of justice is exceeded only by her sense of humor.

There are meaningful deaths. And there are absurd and utterly meaningless deaths. Unfortunately, you don't get to choose which one you get.

May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust.

We use so many words to describe what happens to us, and it all amounts to the same thing. We live out our lives as we are meant to live them—with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Blind acceptance of what you believe to be the dictates of fate and circumstance is dangerous.

Sometimes we just have to trust that time and fate will bring us back to where we are supposed to be. Sometimes patience and belief are all we have.

Il passato era solo un ricordo, un vecchio promemoria di ciò che era andato perduto. Il futuro una vaga promessa-sogni e spire di fumo. Non gli interessavano.

One kiss did not create a lifetime relationship. One moment did not define everything that would happen in the future.

It is not given to us already cast. It is given as a set of possibilities, and we must choose which of these we would make happen and then try to see it done.

You were guaranteed so little in this life, and so sometimes you took what was offered even though you knew it might end badly.

Life was so mysterious and quixotic. It was an infinite maze, but ultimately there was only one right path for each human who sought to navigate its twisting corridors.

He still doesn't know how life can turn you around and twist you about and do with you what it will.

given the power to choose our fate. Fate always decides for us in the end, though we can choose the direction and make the journey. We do as much for ourselves as we can. Sometimes it is enough; sometimes it isn't. But we must try; it is in the nature of our character to always try." I stare at him, thinking through what he says.

Everything happens for a reason, though we might not

Of small events are great catastrophes constructed.

Dance with me, Death, I am ready.

In this world, everyone must die. None of us has any choice in that. Our choice is how we wish to live.

You are not destined for anything. You make your own destiny.