logo

Quotes About Fate

When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
~ Aeschylus
If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.
~ Aeschylus
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.
~ Albert Einstein
When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
~ Ben Jonson
It is the lot of man to suffer.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.
~ Bruce Catton
Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.
~ Charles Dickens
All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
~ Edmund Burke
Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.
~ Euripides
Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.
~ Euripides
Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.
~ Euripides
Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I feel that I am a man of destiny.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.
~ George R. R. Martin
What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
~ Herman Melville
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
~ Tennessee Williams
Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
~ Tennessee Williams
Fortune helps the brave.
~ Terence
How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
~ Terence
We were meant to be together.
~ Terri Farley