Quotes About Fate

May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright Of soft and golden hue Pierce through the future's veil and show What fate now holds for you. By goblins of the cornfield stark By witches dancing on the green By pumpkins grinning in the dark I wish you luck this Hallowe'en.

Criminal Minds, The Bunker: "This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper."

Criminal Minds, Miasma: "All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born."

When fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your teeth.

I was born to end up alone.

I've always had that attitude that things happen for a reason.

Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.

There's no such thing as coincidence. Only a lack of knowledge.

If you are born on the edge of a barrel of shit, you have to accept the likelihood of falling into it now and then.

What a shame it is that a philosopher cannot accept what might befall any man.

The long arm of coincidence.

Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.

Man was predestined to have free will.

quote Euripides: "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.")

A hero, he'd once heard, was a person caught in the right place at the wrong t

No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive.

If it Will it Will

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.

I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch.

Pech ist heute nur noch die Würze des Glücks!

Man plans. God laughs.

history informs us that the passage of dethroned monarchs is short from prison to the grave."18

What is fate but the whine of the low-born?