Quotes About Fate

'Lost' is driving toward an ending, and that ending is: Are these people getting off this island? What is the nature of this island? What is going to happen to them? What is their ultimate fate? What is their ultimate destiny? Those questions need to get answered.

Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.

In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a dice to decide what to do. They were so shocked and fascinated that I knew I had to write the book.

'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

That's the thing about the script, is that how these people were affected by their decision, and how it could ultimately kill them, and I mean literally.

Whatever we try - to be rich, to be happy - death is unavoidable. It doesn't matter how much money you have; it doesn't matter how much love you have. At the end of the day, it's all heading that way.

It's an unbelievable, absurd paradox that we have to put one step in front of the other every day without knowing which one will be our last.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.

The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.

The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

In an hour, you'll be in hell or glory.

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.

Why wait for Death to mow? why wait for Death to sow us in the ground?

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.

Those are the men, ' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.