Quotes About Fate

It is not certain that we can all make the leap to universal empathy, but what is clear is this: as a social project, the city challenges us not just to live together but to thrive together, by understanding that our fate is a shared one.

The city that acknowledges and celebrates our common fate, that opens doors to empathy and cooperation, will help us tackle the great challenges of this century.

The fact that I went from rags to bitches was just one of those quirks of fate written in the stars.

Once Ryan asked Kurt, "What are you going to do when you're thirty?" "I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty," Kurt replied in the same tone he would use to discuss a broken spark plug, "because I'm never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty—I don't want that.

each person fulfills his or her own destiny—whether it be good or bad—in his or her own time and unique way.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Why me?", then a voice answers "Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

Name me and emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.

This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past. The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the past. The universe just doesn't put up with that. We aren't important enough. No one is. Even in our own lives. We're not strong enough, willful enough, skilled enough in chronodiegetic manipulation to be able to just accidentally change the entire course of anything, even ourselves.

theorems, miscellaneous At some point in your life, this statement will be true: Tomorrow you will lose everything forever.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.

See, death is always pointless. And death is the only point. We all end up there sooner or later.

Three scarred faces. It's significant. You and Brooke and your friend Malik. It was always going to be.

Meet me in Montauk...

All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.

Am I to die?" I asked, and he stopped, raised our joined hands to his mouth and gently kissed my knuckles. "You are, my love, and in your sleep, you will become Death's bride.

But Mr. Glanville was in a terrible Confusion, and silently cursed his ill Fate, to make him in Love with a Woman so ridiculous.

Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through, Though I am damned for it we two will lie And burn, here where the starlings fly

Fate and time may conspire to fade your youthful shimmer but you must constantly perspire in order to insure your shine.

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.