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Quotes About Fate

When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
~ William Shakespeare
You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.
~ Eric Roth
Death cancels all engagements.
~ Max Beerbohm
Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
~ Samuel Johnson
Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death." - Jean-Claude
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
~ Mel Brooks
Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.
~ Tess Gerritsen
To be born is to start the journey towards death.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
All games contain the idea of death.
~ Jim Morrison
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
~ Robert Bolt
But I will be, A bridegroom in my death, and run into't As to a lover's bed.
~ William Shakespeare
I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.
~ Charles Bukowski
The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try.
~ Yiyun Li
The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move.
~ Kobo Abe
Death ready stands to interpose his dart.
~ John Milton
You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.
~ Charles Ferguson
Live how we can, yet die we must.
~ William Shakespeare
My death will not be penciled on someone's calendar.
~ Richelle Mead
If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.
~ John Aubrey
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
~ Seneca the Younger
We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
~ Victor Hugo
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
~ Plato
When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.
~ Samuel Johnson