Quotes About Fate

Sometimes even destiny takes time.

Fate, however, has a way of finding your vulnerabilities where you least expect them, illuminating them so that you realize how glaringly obvious they are, and then mercilessly driving a spike straight into their most delicate center.

Yet he knew that destiny played with lives; the most a parent could do was help steer.

It's funny—we worry about the big things, about the big decisions we make in our lives, and how they'll affect us. Take this job or that job? Go to school? Marry; don't marry. Move? But it's the little decisions we make that irrevocably destroy us. Dine in or take out? Turn left here or wait a block? Each one of those little decisions drives us toward our end, and we don't even know it.

I begin to realize that it's little things like this--snarled traffic, a phone call, rain, some new job, whatever it is--that make all the difference about whether things go good or bad. You tiptoe around stuff or you kick it away or you crush it, but whatever is going to happen happens anyway because of stuff you can't control.

The way I saw it, people are like leaves that have fallen into a swift-moving stream. As the leaves get carried downstream, some are caught in rocks and never get any farther. Some are swept to shore. Others - the lucky ones - keep going, missing the stones, staying clear of the shore, staying afloat until they reach the river delta and break free into open water.

Weeping for the dead's a waste of breath - they're lucky, they can't die again.

Our heads will happen cold when this is found.

Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.

You know what the biggest lie in the world is?' 'Tell me.' 'That everything happens for a reason. It's not true. Some things are totally without reason. Some things – the things that hurt the most – are totally meaningless. Some things make no sense and will never make sense.' I

You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the very next person stand behind in line or sit next to on an airplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Ah! Qué terrible es el sino de los pobres locos, esos 'renglones torcidos', esos yerros, esas faltas de ortografía del Creador, como los llamaba 'el Autor de la Teoría de los Nueve Mundos', ignorante de que él era uno de los más torcidos de todos los renglones de la caligrafía divina!

Jeg har skrevet hele mit liv og nærer en romantisk drøm om at dø midt i en sætning.

Bøgers skæbne er ligeså forunderlig som menneskers. Den er aldrig til at forudse.

Only a female could be as calculating and have the foresight that destiny requires,' the gypsy explained. 'Now fate is a man,' he went on, 'no planning, just go with the flow and see what tomorrow brings.

Do not wish your life away, " Grandfather would tell her. "None of us know the number of days we are allotted. It would be foolish to discard any of them.

Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.

Some say we're already damned," Nathanial replied coolly, sitting back in his chair. "So you're too late to send him to Hell." -- BLOOD KNOT

Life does not turn out the way it "should." Nor does life turn out the way it "shouldn't." Life turns out the way it does.

I think I will drink my hemlock now....

Gracias a Dios que no podemos adivinar el futuro. Si nos dijeran lo que iba a pasar, no nos levantaríamos nunca de la cama.

Boy finds treasure, plummets to his death. Great story. It

There's a limited number of Messengers, you see, and no guarantee that any will stay a Messenger.