Quotes About Fate

My mother exaggerates as often as she can. I'm sure she would like nothing more than to be part of a Greek tragedy. She wouldn't even want a large part, she'd be perfectly content with a chorus role, warning that fate is coming to make havoc of all things.

Fate is what it was. Yes, fate that the book I had with me was a novel written by my great-grandfather, a text you couldn't read because my great-grandfather had put a permanent ban on any of his works being translated into English, Russian, or French. He was adamant that these three are languages that break all the bones of any work translated into them.

While telling her I realised that the story of her is much more to do with how she is ended than how she began.

After all, in this life we do not know what lies before us.

There are natures doomed to be unfortunate, to find the bitter in the sweet.

i go through life watching the english language being raped before me face, like miniver cheevy, i was born too late. and like miniver cheevy i cough and call it fate and go on drinking.

One turns back and submits to fate, changes one's attitude, and finds peace in perseverance.

We are no longer supported by the wise counsel and deep insight of the oracle; therefore we no longer find our way through the mazes of fate and the obscurities of our own natures.

The fate of every nation rests in its own power.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

I detected sarcoma." He put his finger on his neck. "Right here." The other man nodded--his head seemed to be nodding continually--and muttered: "Yes. There's no possibility of operating." "Of course not," said the old specialist, his eyes shining with a kind of sinister irony. "There's only one thing that could remove it--the guillotine.

You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey

I should die some day. Had I ever thought of it? I reflected. No, I had never thought of it. I could not. You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey.

On tâche à courir plus vite que le temps, quand il est si simple d'attendre qu'il vienne de lui-même se mettre à vos pieds, comme un chien, avec votre destin tout cuit dans sa bonne gueule.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Et c'était pas un hasard. Je veux dire : on n'était pas là par hasard. On n'avait pas besoin de se le dire pour savoir qu'on était faits du même bois, un bois un peu pourri, mais un beau bois quand même.

The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing in our ears.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

In the temple, high in place Stood Dame Fortune, fair of face, Holding Plutus, god of riches, In her fond and fickle arms. Horns of plenty at her feet Emptied half their contents sweet, And winged Cupid stood before her, Fascinated by her charms.

Intimates are predestined.

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.

Whatever happens at all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely.

I know not if the dark or bright Shall be by lot, If that wherein my hopes delight, be best or not

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.