Quotes About Fate

Sometimes what we believe as coincidence is really just getting ourselves caught in an angel booby trap.

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

Destiny = our free will + God's free will

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

Death, as well as fortune, is rather fond of the brave.

Lincoln died from a bullet to the head while he sat next to his wife in the Ford Theatre. Kennedy died from a bullet to the head while he sat next to his wife in a Ford car.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Fate does not seek our consent.

Everything's a gamble, love most of all.

She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.

We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.

Andy was receptive, like a deep vessel into which life was poured. If this terrible particular thing hadn't been poured into her, she would have been happier--it goes without saying--but less of a person. She was filled out by her fate. I actually think that this is quite rare, the capacity to become the whole shape of the accidents that happen to you.

the substantial outward things that happened to people were more mysterious really than all the invisible turmoil of the inner life, which we set such store by. The highest test was not in what you chose, but in how you lived out what befell you

we're wedged tight into the accident of our moment in history.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.

Le hasard, c'est peut-être le pseudonyme de Dieu quand il ne veut pas signer.

Sur son trône d'airain le Destin qui s'en raille Imbibe leur éponge avec du fiel amer, Et la Nécessité les tord dans sa tenaille.

If you want to meet your fate in life you must start from where you are. You cannot start by first wanting to know your fate, for fate is not a rigid course from which there can be no deviation - it is instead a wondrous journey of possibilities; each possibility bringing its own challenges and knowledge.

The warrior comes to knowledge fully prepared to die, and thus circumvents all possible pitfalls. Being prepared for the worst, the warrior cannot be surprised, because he is not expecting to live. Facing death, the warrior cuts out all unnecessary acts; therefore his fate unfolds smoothly.

There is no thing such as luck. If something comes your way it is because, in one way or another, you have intended it.

I can't say I know at this moment what all these laws are. But on some level everybody knows that we are all getting exactly what we deserve.

There is no place you can be that isn't where your meant to be.

It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.