Quotes About Fate

Had anyone told me that my entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, I would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that's all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything I knew and loved was gone.

I'm sorry, Puck. I truly am. I knew what was inside the case... Keelycael... she knew of our prophecy, claimed we were already on the path to destruction, and one of us would kill the other. This way, we can live. I just... I couldn't kill you, and I couldn't let you kill me. You would have hated yourself. I'm sorry," he repeated. "So sorry." - Sin to Puck

Beautiful boys dated beautiful girls. That's how the world worked. And yes, by those rules, I was destined to be with a lanky lover with a tragic past. Wonderful.

Fate says: When a door closes, you're not meant to go in. We say: Kick the door down.

Why were some people born into blessing and others born into curse?

Maybe fate will be kinder in the next life

Maybe in our next life, fate will be kinder, eh?

When Ali Bell gives you the finger, she's telling you how many seconds you have to live.

while there may have been gods, they weren't particularly well defined. If, for instance, something unusually lucky happened, one might declare that a god--pick one--was feeling generous that day. And if a particularly bad thing happened, a god (usually a different one) was upset about something or other. Gods, in other words, were what most of us would now call chance or luck. And in that sense they served their purpose, by making a random existence seem less random.

Probability said that someday we would run out of luck—as

She was about to die. What she needed was a miracle. What she got was a dragon.

Besides," Catherine said as she followed, "we're probably all doomed anyhow, so I might as well get the full story directly from the Storyteller." Irene had known she and Catherine had a lot in common.

There's only one thing I know about life. I know some things happen by chance, And some things happen because we make them happen.

For in the sterres, clerer than is glas,Is writen, God woot, whoso koude it rede,The deeth of every man.

Cupido,Upon his shuldres wynges hadde he two;And blynd he was, as it is often seene;A bowe he bar and arwes brighte and kene.

Tragedy takes all under regard.

Where you are is always where you are meant to be.

We succumb at the end and are resorbed by the cosmos, itself a great and dying corpse. It's a noble fate and should be faced with nobility.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

For long ages, too, no notice whatever was taken of the criminals sin; he was regarded as harmful, not guilty, and looked upon as a piece of destiny; and the criminal on his side took his punishment as a piece of destiny which had overtaken him, and bore it with the same fatalism ... In general we may say that punishment tames the man, but does not make him better.

Vom Schatten eines Hauchs geboren Wir wandeln in Verlassenheit Und sind im Ewigen verloren, Gleich Opfern unwissend, wozu sie geweiht.

If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labor and trouble; their whole nature was nothing but their master passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Casear; transported to St. Helena, like Napoleon.

Westward the course of empire takes its way;The four first acts already past,A fifth shall close the drama with the day:Time's noblest offspring is the last.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.