Quotes About Fate

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad (Latin).

But if you believe in coincidence, you probably shouldn't be a cop.

Its been said that love finds you when you're ready, Lindsey Boxer in 4th of July.

creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we're alive, and we're going to die without ever knowing any purpose. We can pretend all we want and we can wish all we want, but that basic existential fact remains—we can't know.

Think we choose our lives? No. But I don't think they're thrust upon us, either. What it feels like to me is, they're forever seeping up under our feet.

Psychological death is the key to all romances, isn't it? If the two lovers don't get together, they will each miss out on their soul mate. Their lives will be incurably damaged. Since readers of traditional romances know they're going to end up together, it's all the more important to create this illusion of imminent psychological death.

There is one story question per novella, usually in the form: Will X get Y?

As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods; / They kill us for their sport

The world was filled with clever killers who mistakenly believed that they'd never be caught. This was not true. Karma had everyone's address

Karma had everyone's address

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar.

It was far too absurd to die of a Tuesday

In the weeks we'd been thrown together that summer, our lives had scarcely touched, but we had crossed to the other bank, where time stops and heaven reaches down to earth and gives us that ration of what is from birth divinely ours. We looked the other way. We spoke of everything but. But we've always known, and not saying anything now confirmed it all the more. We had found the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.

Still, some things were out of anyone's control.

She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

We do not suffer by accident.

Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.