Quotes About Fate

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

Death does not wait for you to be ready! Death is not considerate or fair. And make no mistake: here, you face death.

Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.

It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .

How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

Death is usually an all-or-nothing thing!

I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.

Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is.

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

The lucky ones are just born dead.

Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.

Most things may never happen: this one will.

When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

What is thy sentence then but speechless death.

Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]

Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.

"Death's a capricious thing, innit?" "Yes. Yes, she is."

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that—of just that.

nor had I understood till then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others.

Cruzaban por su mente los mismos pensamientos, inútiles para un hombre como él, sin gran talento, aunque no para Sófocles: lo accidental que es el sino, o lo accidental que todo puede parecer cuando es ineludible.

Non avevo mai giudicato così severamente un adulto in vita mia - né i miei genitori, né Alvin e neppure lo zio Monty - e non avevo capito, fino a quel momento, come la sfacciata vanità di certi perfetti idioti possa avere un'influenza decisiva sulla sorte delle persone