Quotes About Fate

Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

I think part of the sadness of Hamlet is given different circumstances, this guy had the capability of being something really great and not ending up poisoned on the ground.

It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

There is no such thing as a coincidence. You will feel this before you know it.

We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.

Happiness too is inevitable.

Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.

Monsters don't get happy endings.

Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.