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Quotes About Fate

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?
~ Jack Kerouac
No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.
~ Ami McKay, The Birth House
If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
It all ends in tears anyway.
~ Jack Kerouac
I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.
~ Ariwara no Narihira
The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.
~ Laurence Sterne
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wisdom is the winner over good luck.
~ Juvenal
God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.
~ Sigrid Undset, The Axe
Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.
~ Charles Dickens
Luck never made a man wise.
~ Seneca the Younger
wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers.
~ e. e. cummings
Wisdom overcomes fortune.
~ Juvenal
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.
~ Yevgeny Baratynsky
On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
~ Victor Hugo
For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.
~ Adela Florence Nicolson
Wisdom comes to no one by chance.
~ Seneca the Younger
It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?
~ Lisa Unger
Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.
~ Austin O'Malley
Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.
~ Alex Haley
Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Wisdom triumphs over chance.
~ Juvenal