Quotes About Fate

In green heaven's fields I saw the sickle of the new moon Remembered by sowing and by harvest, And said: O Kismet, you sleep and the sun blossoms The reply: Do not be as hopeless as the past. She repeated the last line: 'Do not be as hopeless as the past.

What comes is called.

It soon became clear that the ships of the fleet could not maintain contact. Somers ordered the little ketch cut free, knowing that he was almost certainly sentencing all on board to death when he did so, but also knowing it was just too risky to continue towing the smaller ship. At any moment, the ketch could be pooped or broached by a wave, devoured by the ocean, and she would drag the flagship and all her passengers and crew with her to the bottom.

Because there's always a reason for everything, isn't there? Because if there isn't a reason for even one thing, like how you can get sick, or your husband stop loving you, or people you love die—then there's no reason for anything. So there must be reasons.

Anything can happen. But what goes wrong isn't your fault. You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

That's the problem with destiny: You know she'll get you there eventually, but how she does it is generally a big fat mystery.

You can't outrun the inevitable.

What happens next is not to be known, but if we die, we die having chosen our deeds, and that is right and good.

Have you ever thought that if one thing hadn't happened, a whole set of things never would have either? Like dominoes in time, a single event kicked off an unstoppable series of changes that gained momentum and spun out of control, and nothing was ever the same again. Don't ever doubt that a mere second can change your life forever.

God help him if any of them ever came true. Why, he'd be a two-headed, three-toed, monkey-nosed, blind son of a cesspit-licking lackey is she had her way.

Just don't let yourself get killed before you make your peace, boy. Many's the soul who consigned themselves to hell without the devil having to lift a finger.(Thadeus)

To adventure the likes of which I think neither of us have ever seen. (Morgan) And to fate. To the very fate that has abandoned us to turmoil. (Serenity)

Fate was indeed a cruel bitch, and she was laughing mightily at him this day.

Everything is drawn inexorably toward the future.

By laws that we humans are capable of discovering, deciphering, mastering, and using to control our own fate. Even without bulk beings to help us, we humans are capable of dealing with most any catastrophe the universe may throw at us, and even those catastrophes we throw at ourselves—from climate change to biological and nuclear catastrophes.

it was just fate in the way fate has of providing the destitute with a greater quota of accidents for which nobody can be blamed.

Now here was Saeed Saeed, and Biju's admiration for the man confounded him. Fate worked this way. Biju was overcome by the desire to be his friend, because Saeed Saeed wasn't drowning, he was bobbing in the tides.

You would be entirely justified if you spent your entire life railing against your misfortune. But there is another option. Rise above your fate. Internalize your calamity and give it a heroic dimension as Bhishma did. It was a thoughtful disquisition and its central insight applied to all of us since there is no man born who is not handicapped in one way or another. So it is up to us to make the best of a botched job. After

My mother used to say that the gods made the world round so that we could never see too far into our own future.

It's a pity so few of us are allowed to chose thectime and manner of our death

The gods made the world round so that we could never see too far into our own futuer.

Death is coming for this planet and every living thing on it." "Death is coming for all of us, this planet included, whether we prolong its existence or not," Chakotay said.

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.

I look for you in every life, but I don't always find you. And sometimes I find you too late.