Quotes About Fate

He holds blood in his right hand," she whispered. "He will walk with death all his life.

I am not you and all my choices have already been made, good and bad.

No one escapes his fate, whether brave or coward, not from the moment he is born.' – Homer, The Iliad

He is no fool, Kublai. He understands far better than you realize. The khan's vast armies cannot return to being herdsmen, not anymore. He is riding the tiger now, my son. He dare not climb down.

There was no destiny in life, nothing beyond what a man could take and hold for himself.

A man could waste his life worrying, that was all too clear. Sometimes you simply had to choose and shrug, however it came out, knowing that you could not have done more with the bones you were given.

an arrow doesn't care who it kills.

We only have one chance, even if the entire world rests on us.

For us, luck is a trifle over which, in human life, it passes just like that. We try and suffer because, thanks to that, we know that we are alive.

Life has ways to turn and curve in a way you don't expect. But, I wouldn't want to be different, no matter the suffering it brings. Too many futures have already been decided; it's good we can't now every detail because life would have been grey and it would turn in a boring kind of death

Sometimes, whether a man lived or died was down to luck. He did not know if that realization made him value his own life more or less. If death could come because you chose the wrong door leading out into the sun, perhaps there was no sense to any of it - just the fifth horseman. He shrugged, putting such thoughts aside.

it is a truth of historical fiction that all the characters are long dead; all the lives and stories have ended, and usually not well.

Who of us would have ended up where we are if someone hadn't had the good sense to interfere with us?

Passion is tragedy-in-waiting

A veces solo tenemos una oportunidad, solo tenemos un segundo para decidir el curso de nuestra vida.

Separate we come, and separate we go, and this be it known, is all that we know.

I don't see why I should be washed as well as hanged," quoth Kit. from "The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood

In the counter-actualisation of the revolution that befalls us, the revolution that never comes and yet never ceases to pass is grasped as the untimely, virtual, intensive event; the affirmation of which renders us worthy of our fate.

She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which habitually force us into circumstances and situations we hate and abhor.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Fortune favored him… in the opportune moment of his death.

There were three of them in the room now, where only two had first come in. Death was in the room with the two of them.

Andábamos sin buscarnos, pero sabíamos que andábamos para encontrarnos

Whether you end up in heaven or hell, it's not God's plan it's your own.