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Quotes About Fate

Death comes to us all. Press me again and you shall find yours.
~ Spartacus
To conquer death you only have to die.
~ Alane Ferguson
I can control most things, but I don't seem to be able to control death.
~ Al Davis
Once you are born in this world you're old enough to die.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
~ Mario Puzo
And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
~ Homer
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
~ Carlos Fuentes
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
~ Ivan Turgenev
Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.
~ Emily Dickinson
Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging.
~ Joachim Peiper
In the stars is written the death of every man.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.
~ Armando Iannucci
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
~ Sappho
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
~ John Donne
Call no man happy till he is dead.
~ Aeschylus
We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
~ Jackson Browne
When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
~ William Saroyan
"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.
~ Bryant H. McGill
Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
~ Sappho
Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that they will die is a fate worse than death itself.
~ Thomas Ligotti
I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
~ B. F. Skinner