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Quotes About Fate

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
~ Voltaire
Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.
~ Wilhelm Keitel
Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.
~ William Shakespeare
All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.
~ Ernest Hemingway
We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
~ Antonin Artaud
A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.
~ John Towner Williams
All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.
~ Blaise Pascal
Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
~ Lord Byron
Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.
~ Joseph Brodsky
You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.
~ J. K. Rowling
Tomorrow is another day toward death.
~ Sylvia Plath
But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.
~ Brian Lumley
Death - by hanging! - that, at least, I did not deserve. The death part - all right, somebody has to stand for the responsibility. But that - that I did not deserve!
~ Unknown
Death is the only real elegance.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
Death and the dice level all distinctions.
~ Samuel Foote
But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.
~ Rupert Brooke
I'm going to die whatever you do, but I'm not afraid.
~ Unknown
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
~ Thornton Wilder
Death comes for us all in the end.
~ J. K. Rowling
...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.
~ Robert M. Hutchins
Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.
~ Ovid
[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.
~ C. S. Lewis
For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien