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Quotes About Fate

The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.
~ Phil Ochs
Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.
~ Jacoby Shaddix
Men make their own fates - it's personal, not a matter for debate.
~ Janet Morris
She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.
~ Confucius
Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
~ Djuna Barnes
Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
~ Francis Bacon
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.
~ Bernard Berenson
Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.
~ C. Wright Mills
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
~ Jean Toomer
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.
~ Mark Twain
This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.
~ Neal Stephenson
Topology is destiny,' he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time.
~ Neal Stephenson
You're going to fly a radioactive ice ball the size of the Death Star back here just as the shit is hitting the fan—then what?
~ Neal Stephenson
She didn't really know the speech of Beedles and so she made it as simple as she could: "I am Death," she said. "Now, which one of us is going to open the gate?
~ Neal Stephenson
They wouldn't have
~ Neal Stephenson
I am Death," she said. "Now, which one of us is going to open the gate?
~ Neal Stephenson
They are probably now either archived or expunged. If I don't escape from 1851 within the next three weeks, I will never know which.
~ Neal Stephenson
Then he walked home and died.
~ Neal Stephenson
Topology is destiny
~ Neal Stephenson
Seeing what had happened to Memmie, he had suffered a stroke that had immediately rendered him aphasic. Swelling of the brain killed him an hour later. The Diggers buried him and Memmie together in the place where they had fallen.
~ Neal Stephenson
There are no coincidences in the universe.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
There is no coincidence in the universe—only a grand design; an incredible "snowflake.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Your Life is always a result of your thoughts. [...] Events, occurrences, happenings, conditions, circumstances - all are created out of consciousness. [...] Fate can be an acronym for From All Thoughts Everywhere. In other words, the consciousness of the planet. The collective consciousness.
~ Neale Donald Walsch