Quotes About Fate

Mexicans have a fundamental belief in the doomed quality of humankind's finest schemes. Why hurry fate?

There is no such thing as fate. We are born, we live, we die. We invent meaning to make life tolerable.

The path of destiny isn't a straight line. It is curved, chaotic, often hidden, and there are endless forks where you make the decisions that lead you to yourself.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

They say marriages are made in heaven. But so is thunder and lightning

We all have it comin', kid

Tomorrow is promised to no one.

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

Nothing happens carelessly. We're not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty.

My daddy always said, 'Luck never gives, it lends

They who await no gifts from chance, conquer fate.

To resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly. —EDWARD GIBBON,

As a Jewish teenager in Czechoslovakia she was fated to be swept up by the Nazis,

Ich glaube nicht, dass wir geboren werden mit einem vorherbestimmten Weg und einem bekannten Ende. Vielmehr sind wir das Ergebnis unserer eigenen Handlungen, die wiederum beeinflußt werden von dem, was das Leben gegen uns unternimmt. Die Summe all dessen macht uns zu dem, was wir sind.

He sighed and knew that life was full of 'if only' for everyone

A man's character is his fate.

Character is our destiny.

Man's character is his fate.

Ethos anthropoi daimon--a man's character is his fate.

A man's character is his fate.

The living, though they yearn for consummation of their fate, need rest, and in their turn leave children to fulfil their doom.

The luckiest men die worthwhile deaths

One's bearing shapes one's fate.

Time is a child playing dice; the Kingly power is a child's.