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Quotes About Fate

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.
~ Johann von Goethe
I was thinking of my patients and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate they were in despair.
~ Anais Nin
Go and wake up your luck.
~ Persian Proverb
If fate means you to lose give him a good fight anyhow.
~ William McFee
We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
~ Henry Miller
We must master our good fortune or it will master us.
~ Publilius Syrus
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
~ Jane Austen
The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.
~ D. H. Lawrence
All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
~ Lord Byron
... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.
~ Albert Camus
But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.
~ Lord Byron
Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.
~ William Shakespeare
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
~ Henry Adams
Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
~ John Lyly
All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.
~ Robert Byron
I hope you fall in love with someone nice and have a good marriage. I might end up dying without knowing what it's like to be in love.
~ Koushun Takami
I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happened that didn't, so overall I feel blessed.
~ Paul Auster
Today, a couple with 'just married' tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married couple that had previouslydied in a car accident.
~ Anthony Liccione
What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is at all times? A widow.
~ Anonymous
When I met Jean I felt God reach down out of the sky pull my hair and say "This one dummy."
~ Richard Atcheson
Marriages are made in Heaven.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Sometimes I am God, if I say a man dies, he dies that same day.
~ Pablo Escobar
To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.
~ John Glenn
Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
~ Fidel Castro