Quotes About Fate

It is not written that great men shall be happy men.

This is Maximilien de Robespierre, barrister-at-law: unmarried, personable, a young man with all his life before him. Today against his most deeply held convictions he has followed the course of the law and sentenced a criminal to death. And now he is going to pay for it.

If life is a chain of gold, sometimes God hangs a charm on it.

The princess] looks out and sees the humble musician with his lute. But unless the musician turns out to be a prince in disguise, this story cannot end well.

It's all right for you, you and Danton. I have to go and stutter for two hours at the Jacobins and probably be knocked down again by maddened violin makers and trampled by all sorts of tradesmen. Whilst Danton spends his evenings feeling up his new girlfriend and you lie around here in a nice fever, not too high. If you're an instrument of destiny, and anyone would do instead, why don't you take a holiday?

He thinks of making his fortune. We all know that money sticks to yours hands. No, It passes through them, alas.

To gentle pressure, King Henry capitulated; the White Rose, aged twenty-four, was taken out into God's light and air, in order to have his head cut off. But there is always another White Rose; the Plantagenets breed, though not unsupervised. There will always

Coffee was served: bitter and black, like chances missed.

In the end, Dr Bhattacharya had said, the heart fails without warning.

Death is your prince, you are not his patron; when you think he is engaged elsewhere, he will batter down your door, walk in and wipe his boots on you.

It was only a year before his girls died of the same cause.

We don't have to invite pain in.It's waiting for us:sooner than later

There's nothing happy about having your fate decided for you! You have to grab your own happiness!

A flower can't choose the place where it blooms, and a child can't choose the parents she's born to

you're lucky you can die!!

But some people are born lucky. They lead happy lives without even trying. Ridiculous, isn't it?

Man väljer inte sitt öde. Och man väljer lika liten sin hustru eller sin älskarinna, eller sina barn. Man får dem, och man har dem, och det händer att man mister dem. Men man väljer inte!

You have lost faith in anything great; you are doomed, then, doomed to perish unless that faith returns, like a comet from unknown skies.

Death's favorites don't die.

But no one chooses a future. You choose a path without being certain where it leads.

Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.

She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally.

Better she never be a bride than wind up a widow