Quotes About Fate

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

Where is fate, and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind.

How is it that one is born of good parents, receives a good education and becomes a good man, while another comes from besotted parents and ends on the gallows? How do you explain this inequality without implicating God?

Luck never gives; it only lends.

Stan Bad guy can't win. It's a morality tale. One way or the other - he's gotta go down.

Serenely full, the epicure would say,Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today.

Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate circumstances.

We don't get a choice about what hand we are dealt in this life.

Angel, a crowd of millions couldn't hide you from me. I found you once. I'll always find you.

I don't believe in luck.' 'Then it's for blessings. God gives us children in blessings. It's never by chance.' - Charisse & Nevada, Ch. 33

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.

How do you not believe in fate? How do you ever think that you are the one in control? How could she have been so foolish as to think that she had any authority over her future? How could she have been so brazen as to think that this had anything at all to do with her?

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.

Some say "The end is near," as if that is shocking news. The truth is, the end is always near. What is actually shocking is that we, ourselves, can help to choose which end.

I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?

We are none of us promised anything but the last breath we take.

We are only bits of protein in a cruel universe of silica and fire.

Wszyscy s? jako? zadowoleni ze swoich miejsc, które im wyznaczy?o przeznaczenie i ?a?cuch genów. Wykonuj? skromnie, co im ka?e Wielka Entropia. A ja obra?am si? na los, na swoje ograniczenie, na Pana Boga. Pragn? czego?, czego nie mog?. Marz? o tym, czego nie b?dzie. Ton? w sze??dziesi?ciu litrach w?asnej truj?cej wody, ja, zdefektowany ssak dwuno?ny.

Well, there now,' sighed Miss Malvina. 'Everyone else can go off into the world, but we're doomed to stay here and live.

Fate is fate," Stark said. "It's there. It doesn't change. We just don't see it until we walk into it. Or it walks into us.

I enter a time of much peril, and am more likely to fail and die than succeed and live." "Those who succeed and those who fail are both destined to die.