Quotes About Fate

And these vicissitudes tell best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Hath won the experience which is deem'd so weighty.

...for so a wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

So we need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with. But not in the rather silly modern way of horoscopy and telling your fortune by the stars... They want their "fortune" told, never this misfortune.

One needs a light spirit to bear a heavy fate.

Sorrow and ill weather come unsent for.

Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate...

There were no violins or warning bells... no sense that my little life was about to change. But we never know, do we? Life turns on a dime.

What boots up must come down.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to do is to know when to die. Prolonged life has ruined more men than it ever made.

May you be in heaven twenty years before the devil knows you're dead!

May your soul be in heaven before the devil knows you're dead.

Death marches on — an army inexorable, its tireless soldiers obeying orders of fate.

I rocked her in the cradle, And laid her in the tomb.

Choice is the hinge of destiny.

Life's real name is Choices.

How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away.

O Fate! Have you no other gift Than voices in a muffled room? Why do you live behind your door, And hide yourself in angry gloom?

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

Destiny = our free will + God's free will

Clemens held that there was no such thing as an accident: that it was all forewritten in the day of the beginning; that every event, however slight, was embryonic in that first instant of created life, and immutably timed to its appearance in the web of destiny... invested in life's primal atom.

You are fate's shadow or fate's sun, depending on which way you turn.

Some torture Fate beyond recognition rather than let him have his way.

When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads, Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds, Owls, Ravens, Crickets seem the watch of death, Nature's worst Vermine scare her God-like Sons. Ecchoes the very leavings of a Voice, Grow babling Ghosts, and call us to our Graves: Each Mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus, While we fantastick Dreamers heave and puff, And sweat with an Imagination's weight...

History is the action and reaction of these two,— Nature and Thought;— two boys pushing each other on the curb-stone of the pavement.