Quotes About Fate

Congratulations, you have been chosen to act as Death, it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

What a bawdy bitch is fate when the best bit of a bloke's day is a brace of bloody mermaid murders.

You do not cause death, you do not prevent death, you are a servant of Destiny, not its agent. Get over yourself.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby, you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

If it be not destiny, then surely there is plausible deniability, which in the parlance of politics is the same thing.

Life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch. Saphira, from Eragon

Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?

The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

What will happen will happen and I won't waste my time worrying.

The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us.

A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.

What will be will be.No one can escape fate's design.

I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.

But you did everything you could, and when you could do no more , you made peace with your fate, and you didn't rail needlessly against it. That is wisdom, not weakness.

If you could have stopped it, or if you could have escaped but you didn't, then you would have lost my respect. But you did everything you could, and when you could do no more, you made peace with your fate, and you didn't rail needlessly against it. That is wisdom, not weakness.

Fate has a cruel sense of humor, don't you think?

The reward may be uncertain, but our doom is inevitable unless we try.

They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity and--conversely--the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody.

fate has a cruel sense of humor

If we are to tempt fate, then let us not be cowards about it.

And in time, I must meet the same fate. Love, family, accomplishments—they are all torn away, leaving nothing. What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life. But options are before you; choose one and dedicate yourself to it.

Our wyrds—our fates

When the time comes and you need a weapon, look under the roots of the Menoa tree. Then, when all seems lost and your power is insufficient, go to the Rock of Kuthian and speak your name to open the Vault of Souls.

Galbatorix used to call me Kingkiller. You're Kingkiller as well now." "It seems to run in the family." "You'd better keep an eye on Roran, then.