Quotes About Fate

Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn't have. Maybe there's a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.

it weren't for bad luck, he'd have no luck at all, and all that.

We all assume that we have our tomorrows to look forward to, but we never truly know what's waiting just around the corner.

Some days the universe simply conspires against you.

You never stop thinking you might have beaten it somehow, and there were moments when we thought we had. Your husband can be dead years, and you can't stop thinking how you might have beaten it. Or how they could have left ten minutes earlier, or the next morning. Or that damn lighthouse could have flickered through the fog.

Success on earth rests on both fate and effort. One cannot change the course of destiny but heroic acts can achieve wonders;

It wasn't my fault that Candace followed me down to the water's edge and it wasn't my fault that I picked her up and held her down in the water and watched her pass on to the great beyond. She wanted to be there, or she wouldn't have gone down there with me. She knew she was killing me and she knew that I was not the type to go down without a fight.

All of life is slightly dependent on magic. So is death.

Most people die old, full of pain and regret. Or young and full of drugs and self-indulgence—or sheer bad luck.

every person you meet is two or three bad decisions away from being a junkie, homeless, dealing with a horrible disease, or getting a bullet to the back of the head.

what a horrible thing your body is, the way it's doomed from day one, your fate is death no matter what you do.

Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices.

alea iacta est: 'the die is cast'.

As Jung emphasized: "Until you make the unconscious, conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate.

The future's written in water.

whether it is clear or unclear to you the universe is folding as it should

God put us on this carnival ride, We close our eyes not knowing were it will take us next

We swore that we'd die with our boots on. But then, that's what you do when you drown.

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot be ascribed by anyone to want of good luck, or attributed to fate; these words are devoid of sense, and all fault will rightly fall on your own head.

Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.

Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.

I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?" "You can kill yourself," Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. "As far as I know, inanimate objects can accidentally kill you. So if you were planning on teaching yourself the lambada on a greased platform over a pit full of knives, I wouldn't." "There goes my Saturday.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires,-'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.