Quotes About Fate

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one. —Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

Fate isn't one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

Sometimes, life seems to have a higher meaning. Events unfold in uncanny sequences. Long-forgotten acquaintances turn up with news that changes lives. A stranger appears and speaks a few words of wisdom, solving a previously insoluble problem, or something in a recent dream transpires in reality. Suddenly the existence of God seems confirmed.

Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.

What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.

When we love someone, we're held hostage by fate, because if we lose that person, then we, too, are lost.

To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes. But it is not a spinning wheel of chance, it is a work of art, complete and framed by eternity.

Nothing is predetermined for us, and yet all our possible choices are threads in the vast weave of things, so that we have free will even though the consequences of our will are predictable.

These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another...Most good people have a sense of humor. The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are mostly humorless.

Your past is my Future.

You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same stubborn fate.

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

ineluctably.

The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

HIs life was always a happenstance.

Celui qui passe à coté de la plus belle histoire de sa vie n'aura que l'âge de ses regrets et tous les soupirs du monde ne sauraient bercer son âme.

Quiero que nos abramos paso a través de nuestro destino y que flotemos sobre las aguas. El mañana siempre se nos escapa.

There was an inevitability about the road towards each other which encouraged meandering along the route.

Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.

And the sins of the Eastern father shall be visited upon the Western sons. Often taking their time, stored up in the genes like baldness or testicular carcinoma, but sometimes on the very same day.

The fate of the young man in his headphones, who faced a jail cell that very night, did not seem such a world away from his own predicament: an anniversary party full of academics.

The mantra of the makeover junkie, sucking it in, letting it out; unwilling to settle for genetic fate; waiting instead for her transformation...

Maybe nothing that happens upon stolen ground can expect a happy ending.

she believed in her own good timing, in timing itself, as a mystical force, a form of fate, operating at the global and cosmic level as much as at the personal.