Quotes About Fate

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

To little men, gods send little things.

Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

There's no escape. I'm God's only man.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

Men make their own history; but they make it under given conditions, and they become entangled thereby in a fate which is in part the result of other men having made their own history earlier.

Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there.

The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

Call no man happy before he dies.

Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.

Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.

Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

Ain't no man can outrun his fate.

The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

Man Proposeth, God disposeth.