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Quotes About Fate

The world is stretched thin, Eragon. Soon it will snap and madness will burst forth. What you feel is what we dragons feel and what the elves feel—the inexorable march of grim fate as the end of our age approaches. Weep for those who will die in the chaos that shall consume Alagaësia. And hope that we may win a brighter future by the strength of your sword and shield and my fangs and talons.
~ Christopher Paolini
Beware of losing your way, for you are one of the few who are truly free to choose their own fate. That freedom is a gift, but also a responsibility more binding than chains
~ Christopher Paolini
That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment.
~ Christopher Pike
John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!' Sita: 'Then you should never have been born.
~ Christopher Pike
Then you should have never been born
~ Christopher Pike
We all die. It's just a question of when and how horrible it's going to be.
~ Christopher Pike
No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know we're mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.
~ Christopher Pike
Victim: I don't want to die! Sita: Then you should never have been born
~ Christopher Pike
I do not want to die - Then you should not have been born (Sita) Last Vampire
~ Christopher Pike
Any odds are good odds for the damned
~ Christopher Pike
If you don't want to die, you should have never been born
~ Christopher Pike
He cries, "Please! I don't want to die." I lean over. My hair smothers him. "Then you should never have been born," I say.
~ Christopher Pike
Death comes for the dead.
~ Christopher Rice
Why did I submit myself to the butchery of the trenches when I might have served in the echelons as a medical officer? Even the most rudimentary knowledge of Doctor Freud would suggest that I was pursuing a death wish
~ Trevanian
I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.
~ Tupac Shakur
Neither of these speculations is unreasonable, and they are mentioned to show how little men control their own destiny.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
Jacopo Belbo didn't understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.
~ Umberto Eco
For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.
~ Umberto Eco
But chance has a taste for conspiracy.
~ Umberto Eco
Çocukluk y?llar?m boyunca, tan??t???m bütün insanlar?n, kaderin bir oyunu olarak, ahmak olduÄŸuna inanm??t?m.
~ Umberto Eco
Yes. Mankind can't endure the thought that the world was born by chance, by mistake, just because four brainless atoms bumped into one another on a slippery highway. So a cosmic plot has to be found—God, angels, devils. Synarchy performs the same function on a lesser scale.
~ Umberto Eco
Los dioses ciegan a quienes quieren perder.
~ Umberto Eco
Adiós, Guillermo, eres un inglés loco y arrogante, pero tienes un gran corazón, ¿Volveremos a vernos? —Sin duda —lo tranquilizó Guillermo—, Dios lo querrá. Pero Dios no lo quiso.
~ Umberto Eco
Now he was passing from the playing space with no role left to play but this last one of dying, that comes to all.
~ Unsworth, Barry