Quotes About Fate

Fate Eve said with a sigh I'm not sure fate had to burn up your car to get the point across, Shane said, buckling his own seatbelt. No, not that. The hearse. I'm going to name it Fate. Shane stared at Eve for a long, long few seconds, then slowly shook his head. Have you considered medication, or- She flipped him off. Ah. Back to normal. Excellent.

I gambled for the soul of the Library. And I lost.

The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.

Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that one special person.

You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it's right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible?

How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall?

What I mean is that when people say right person, wrong time, or wrong person, right time, it's usually a cop-out. They think that fate is playing with them. That we're all just participants in this romantic reality show that God gets a kick out of watching. But the universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do.

I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soulmate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.

It's definitely worth something," I said. "A lot. We still don't know each other, right? And I'll admit—I thought it might be best if we kept it all to the page, passed that notebook back and forth until we were ninety. But clearly that wasn't meant to be. And who am I to blow against the wind?

É uma grande mentira dizer que só existe uma pessoa com quem se vai ficar pelo resto da vida. Se tiver sorte? E se se esforçar bastante? Sempre haverá mais de uma.

Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that one special person. That person to spend Christmas with or grow old with or just take a nice silly walk in Central Park with.

Powers that be, powers of three, let Caterina's destiny be all that I see.

It's not every day I learn I'm someone's destiny.

We were each other's rock. But did it make us each other's destiny?

He'd asked if I felt the pull. I could'nt deny that I did. And that it terrified me. It wasn't like a crush. It wasn't like seeing a guy and thinking I'd like him to take me to the prom. It was soul-deep, as though he was everything, the one, forever. I had to remind myself that I barely knew the guy. But still I couldn't shake the feeling of being meant for each other - as corny as that sounded.

He'd always pitied those ensnared in the time periods he studied—people captured in resin, their fates sealed by their inability to see what was coming. The greatest curse, he'd thought, was to be stuck in one's own time—and the greatest power was to see beyond its horizons.

Let the pages burn, for such be the fate of the soul, that all our striving be dust, and none in the bright living world ever know truly what once lived and died in another heart. And let me dispense with my foolish dream of leaving the tracery of my thought whole, perhaps to be read in an age in which there is greater kindness. It is not such an age. Let the truth be ash.

Why must man struggle to live, when he inevitably dies?

But they were fated to misunderstand each other.

Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest chance might have averted. Indeed, coincidence may be defined as the tool used by Fate to shape the destinies of men and nations.

We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose.

Destiny struggles to reassert the pattern that was meant to be.

he knew that fate was only a mythological concept

Framed behind glass is a card from a carnival fortune-telling machine. It promises you are destined to be together forever.