Quotes About Fate

I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether

tumbril on his way to the Guillotine.

Death has no right to leave him standing, and to mow me down!

Hobnelia, seated in a dreary vale, In pensive mood rehears'd her piteous tale... 'This ladyfly I take from off the grass, Whose spotted back might scarlet red surpass. Fly, lady-bird; north, south, or east, or west, Fly where the man is found that I love best.'

Life: A compromise between Fate and Freewill.

Luck never gives; it only lends.

And there 's a nice youngster of excellent pith,— Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

Chive got you, babe. We're mint to be together.

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

Prose is too coarse, too heavy for romance — We need poetry for love & all things of chance.

When you walk in purpose, you collide with destiny.

The universe always wagers — life is risk.

It cannot be denied, but outward accidents conduce much to fortune; favour, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue: but chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands: "Faber quisque fortunæ suæ," saith the poet...

...there is not a man in the world who can tell to-day what he will do to-morrow.

A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive. And among that billion minus one Might have chanced to be Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne; But the One was Me.

plot, the absolute line between two points which I've always despised. Not for literary reasons, but because it takes all hope away. Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.

It is described by some as a moment when the world stops moving...it did just that for me. I knew before she said one word or made a single movement, that our lives would begin to dissolve into each other... we would never part again. This was not love at first sight, but rather second. I had fallen in love at eleven; now I was twenty and now all things were possible.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future." - Warmaster Horus

What job do you want to do? And I see them all hanging up before me, like clothes on a rack, all the jobs, tinker, tailor, soldier, and you have to pick one and then you have to pretend for the rest of your life that that's what you are. So they aint no different really from accidents of birth. I didn't know that phrase then but I learnt it later. It's a good phrase...

Since the end is never told, We pay the teller off in gold, But he cannot be bought or sold.

Ma perché questo, Efix, dimmi, tu che hai girato il mondo: è da per tutto così? Perché la sorte ci stronca così, come canne? – Sì, – egli disse allora, – siamo proprio come le canne al vento, donna Ester mia. Ecco perché! Siamo canne, e la sorte è il vento.

siamo proprio come le canne al vento, donna Ester mia. Ecco perché! Siamo canne, e la sorte è il vento.