Quotes About Fate

He had been greeted by a black screen with one word in white block letters: Tragedy.

Love was not an act of reason, but a leap of faith, a belief that some mysterious meaning must lie behind existence and that two particular lives were fated to be one; love was an expression of trust in the truth of the heart's yearning and the mind's keen intuition. In the absence of love, the heart might be deceitful above all things, but profound love was an antivenin that cured deceit.

that I am in some way chosen for a special role.

Which would not surprise me. But a role in what?

They said that man proposes, God disposes;

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.

Certain events are lightly sketched on the future and can be erased. Others are woven into the fabric of all that is to come and resist being unraveled.

The past cannot be redeemed. What has been and what might have been both bring us to what is.

he knew human lives were free of the chains of fate except in one regard: It was the human destiny to be free.

There's nowhere on Earth where people haven't died in sorry ways.

Loneliness is the fate of he who dares to change the world.

in this world of free will, fate is amorphous.

This was, after all, how some of the best things happened in life—by the mysterious working of synchronicity, incredible coincidence.

The Fates are master sharpshooters, and the easy target is the one who's standing still.

On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life. Then he died in the very minute that my mother gave birth to me.

Humans, as attractive and awesomely created as they are, tend to believe that events occur in their lives randomly, with little or no meaning. They often overlook the obvious, that God is in control.

Fate. Now that's a loaded word. Like yoga or karma, it's one of those words that slipped out of its native culture and ended up a celebrity with an extreme makeover.

Life unaffected by the blows of Fortune is a dead sea

Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.

Comment s'étaient-ils rencontrés ? Par hasard, comme tout le monde. Comment s'appelaient-ils ? Que vous importe ? D'où venaient-ils ? Du lieu le plus prochain. Où allaient-ils ? Est-ce que l'on sait où l'on va ?

Comment s'étaient-ils rencontrés? Par hasard, comme tout le monde. Comment s'appelaient-ils? Que vous importe? D'où venaient-ils? Du lieu le plus prochain. Où allaient-ils? Est-ce que l'on sait où l'on va? Que disaient-ils? Le maître ne disait rien; et Jacques disait que son capitaine disait que tout ce qui nous arrive de bien et de mal ici-bas était écrit là-haut.

To rot under marble or to rot under earth is still to rot.

If illness didn't kill you, you died of bad luck.

We Vietnamese have two philosophies to sustain us. The Confucian tells us how to behave when fate grants us peace and order. The Buddhist trains us to accept our fate even when it brings us blood and chaos.