Quotes About Fate

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.

Each of us earns his death, his own death, which belongs to no one else and this game is life.

He's not a bad guy. He just didn't get any luck and by the time he figured out what was happening to him it was too late to do anything about it.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.

What is the use of working out chances? There are no chances against God.

We ask for our daily crumb of love. We are given a ton for eternity, which is death.

Oh, the vanity of plans! Our lives proceed regardless. All the things we work out in such minute detail slip away from us at the last moment, or change.

But any great happiness is a bright light, a challenge to fate to do its worst. There must not be people who are too happy. They would discourage all the rest, to whom life grants nothing more than unexceptional moments, intermittent joys, roses that have to be watered with tears.

Yes, it was the love of woman that was the danger, the obstacle on which her dearest wish might founder. How it grieves mothers to tell themselves that, at the very moment it has occurred to them, there already exists a woman who is making her way towards their son from the depths of eternity.

You know what I think? Fate! That's what it is fate! There's a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name,but I forgot what it is. Creeps up behind him, and puts him in the basket when he ain't expecting it.

I thought of all the women on the Titanic who had refused dessert." Carrie's

apparently they go with the billet.

How I envy you your ability to be inarticulate in the face of Fate.

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.

Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Life's a very funny proposition, after all.