Quotes About Fate

God—I don't know why—wanted me to be a Czech. It was not my choice. But I accept it, and I try to do something for my country because I live here.

High destiny is clear impressed

portion Indra's claim

Battle. Canto XXVI. Dúshan's Death. Canto XXVII. The Death

Rámáya?. The

Rámáyan leaves

Let them drown me, if that's what they want. Let them. You die once. What's there to be afraid of?

How easy and wonderful it is to live in happy days and how bitter and accursed it is in miserable days! Why can't people save up the one to soften the pain of the other? Why is there always a chasm between the two? Where were you, what games were you playing when your fate was being decided? Why did you let them chop off your wings, without thinking, just when you needed them most, when you need to fly and not crawl from disaster?

Whether a person is in bed or walking along and is struck by sudden death, it's right for humans to die on solid ground, with the earth beneath their feet and air trying to get into the lungs.

There is something in a man's fate that has eyes that remember whether he has someone to come home to or not.

I might have wanted another destiny for myself, but others have theirs, and I have mine. And I'm not sorry about it. It's mine.

Is mankind therefore solely responsible for its history? Without a doubt—because it is not God who has willed it to be as such. God is crucified in it.

Aquello que debe ocurrir por voluntad del dios, difícil le resulta al hombre evitarlo, y la peor de las penas humanas es precisamente esta: prever muchas cosas y no ejercer sobre ellas poder alguno. HERODOTO

Miles meus contubernalis Dic mihi cras quis erit vivus Iacta pilum hostem neca Miles sum, miles romanus!

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate

Destiny is powerful but self-effort can modify it. Truth is all powerful.

Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.

Alice must already have known, even back then, when she first saw Fortune, when she was, what, nine or ten, that she would try and hitch a lift on the wheel, too, as soon as she possibly could. She must already have been thinking out how. But she couldn't have guessed how soon her chance would come.

If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans.

There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life.

How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die

Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.

Quo fata trahunt, retrahuntque sequamur. (Wherever the fates may lead us, let us follow them.)