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Quotes About Fate

I am satisfied with, and stand firm as a rock on the belief that all that happens in God's world is for the best, but what is merely germ, what blossom and what fruit I do not know.
~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Meeting someone is God's doing, but parting is what humans do themselves.
~ Moto Hagio
It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.
~ Stephen King, The Stand
The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.
~ A. J. P. Taylor
The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.
~ Aeschylus
You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!
~ Agatha Christie
Duty is ours and events are God's.
~ Angelina Grimke
Misfortune was my god.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America.
~ Bill Oberst Jr.
Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.
~ Bruce Springsteen
don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.
~ Charles Bukowski
I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.
~ Clay Aiken
Exactly as we might ask God, and do ask God, to change our fate. The difference is that in the story the writer actually replies and in the end even changes his mind.
~ Daniel Kehlmann
This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.
~ Stevie Smith
Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.
~ T. S. Eliot
Fate can be one mean god at times.
~ Terry Pratchett
Man proposes, but God disposes.
~ Thomas a Kempis
God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
~ Voltaire
God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.
~ William Rounseville Alger
Why, thou owest god a death.
~ William Shakespeare
By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next
~ William Shakespeare
What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
~ William Shakespeare
History is the revelation of Providence.
~ Lajos Kossuth