Quotes About Fate

A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet Lessen like sound of friends' departing feet; And Death is beautiful as feet of friend Coming with welcome at our journey's end. For me Fate gave, whate'er she else denied, A nature sloping to the southern side; I thank her for it, though when clouds arise Such natures double-darken gloomy skies.

The wisest man could ask no more of Fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the Many -- honored by the Few; To count as naught in World or Church or State; But inwardly in secret to be great.

Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.

Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.

If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.

Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni

Sive parens rerum, cum primum informia regna Materiamque rudem flamma cedente recpit, Fixit in aeternum causas, qua cuncta coercet Se quoque lege tenens, et saecula iussa ferentem Fatorum inmoto divisit limite mundum; Sive nihil positom est sed fors incerta vagatur Fertque refertque vices, et habet mortalia casus: Sit subitum, quodcumque paras; sit caeca future Mens hominum fati; liceat sperare timenti.

Inde lacessitum primo mare, cum rudis Argo Miscuit ignotas temerato litore gentes Priamque cum ventis pelagique furentibus undis Conposuit mortale genus, fatisque per ilam Accesit mors una ratem.

Everything good or bad that has occurred in my life has been predictable and inevitable, especially the choices and actions that have made sure I am now utterly alone.

Tudo de bom ou de ruim que aconteceu na minha vida foi previsível e inevitável, sobretudo as escolhas e ações que garantiram que eu viesse a estar agora absolutamente sozinha.

I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo .

Each year new consuls and proconsuls are made; but not every year is a king or a poet born.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it.

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

from that day forward she lived happily ever after. Except for the dying at the end. And the heartbreak in between.

When immortal Death has taken mortal life.

love either happens or it doesn't; there is no twice, thrice or more to it; it just happens once, only once.

I would consider it a great blessing, but some of us are cursed to love unwisely and do so until death.