Quotes About Fate

Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.

When people work beyond their destiny, all they do fails.

Times were chosen and appointed. If one forced them, they were wrong.

In a strange and ominous way the fate of women everywhere in the world is linked with the trend toward fascism. To delay might mean to be compelled to silence.

and when the hour is come that has been set for each of us before ever we can walk or talk, then what need of mourning?

We were brought together by two stories that barely even shook hands with each other in the midst of everything that happened.

Por qué tuve que conocerte?, se preguntó la loca mirándolo desaparecer. Pudimos no habernos cruzado nunca.

Shikataganai, she added. It can't be helped.

On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate.

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

Death will come when thou art dead, soon, too soon.

That which takes effect by chance is not an art.

The truth echoed in her head. On the same day she met him, he had tried to kill her. Her mate.

I want to seize fate by the throat.

there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.

They just had to be patient. Destiny would bring them what they needed, yet again.

You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.