Quotes About Fate

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.

Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

Chance is the providence of adventurers.

Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

Hope implies that you think you have a chance at something.

What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.

Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?

You have elected to follow this path you do not know. You have elected to follow the path because eternity has elected you. You will follow it is as long as eternity holds you to it.

There are certain protective forces in the universe that do watch over us, but the innocent die too.

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

There are no inevitabilities in history