Quotes About Fate

To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes.

Fate isn't a straight road, I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work. People are doing the Devil's work everywhere you go; there's no avoiding it unless you go live on a mountaintop somewhere, a hundred miles from everyone.

If you think about it, you were born into a world populated by the dead, because every one of them will die one day.

Dogs in general, not just good Dixie, sometimes regarded their humans with an expression of loving concern colored with tender pity, as if they knew not merely people's most private fears and hopes, but also the very truth of life and the fate of all things, as though they wished that they could speak in order to give comfort by sharing what they knew.

because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

In life, little happens by chance, and most bad hands we're dealt are the consequence of our actions, which are shaped by our wisdom and our ignorance.

Life offers infinite possible roads. Sometimes your head chooses the route, sometimes your heart. And sometimes, for better or worse, neither head nor heart can resist the stubborn pull of fate.

butterfly flyin' after dark is an omen, means your death is maybe comin' soon. Don't look at me like that, smart ass. I never stepped on no eggshells.

If someone had killed Hamlet in the first act, a lot more people would've been alive at the end.

wouldn't that be ironic—run down by a hearse? God knows, life is often ironic in a way it's never shown on television.

A man's life can pivot on the smallest hinge of time. No minute is without potential for momentous change, and each tick of the clock might be the voice of Fate whispering a promise or a warning.

The thing pursuing him, however, was not only his past but also his fate, and the rails that led away from it also led inexorably to it.

expect you'll have a fatal accident before you ever get into a courtroom

Destiny struggles to reassert the pattern that was meant to be. But sometimes, happily it fails. ... Destiny struggles to reassert the pattern that was meant to be, (...) And sometimes, happily, it succeeds.

Life you can evade; death you cannot.

Ian Stonebridge

Atropos was the goddess who cut the thread of life.

Everyone living here will be dead soon. Everyone within a radius of miles. Miles and miles.

truth, there were no tracks of destiny through the chaos of life, only paths forged by decisions.

T. S. Eliot: LIFE YOU MAY EVADE, BUT DEATH YOU SHALL NOT.

the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft a-gley.

heads east, from which every tomorrow always comes.

that every moment of every day, depending on the faith we embrace, each of us continues to live either by the merciful sufferance of God or at the whim of blind chance and indifferent nature. She