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Quotes About Fate

Erik, Erik! I saved your life! Remember? You were scentenced to death! But for me you would be dead by now.
~ Gaston Leroux
We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.
~ Anthony Liccione
She did not have time to wonder about his being late. He died bent over the sidewalk sign that stood out in front of the hardware store... He had not even had time to get into the store...
~ Alice Munro
The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Just when you think you're in the cat-bird's seat, the Angel of Death calls "dibs" on shotgun.
~ Unknown
You can't make me do nothing but die!
~ Richard Wright, Native Son
Mr. Asher, you can resist who you are for only so long. Finally, you just decide to go with fate.
~ Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job
Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end.
~ László Krasznahorkai
[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him.
~ C.S. Lewis, Miracles
At the end to death I must go, Finishing a real tragic and funny show.
~ Unknown
There was no plan for us. We are a misspelling being erased by Death in order for the story of total chaos to continue.
~ Unknown
Most people do not realize that they are one car crash away from death.
~ Steven Magee
Death is the final destiny of the human race.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Death, child. It's beckoning us both, my brother and I.
~ Ross Turner, Midnight
Death is the destiny.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
You always have something left to lose. Until, of course, you die.
~ Ally Condie, Atlantia
It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be with us today if they hadn't happened to be delayed in traffic somewhere...
~ Emma Donoghue
She should have died on that day. Perhaps, in a way, she had.
~ Unknown
To kill was to be doomed. To kill was to die, yourself.
~ Unknown
But even then I knew it wasn't me that saved her life. It wasn't about me. I was just there while she was maybe going to die and maybe not, and then she just didn't.
~ Lucy Corin
What is the charm in dying when we fully well know that we are not going to get another chance at living?
~ Unknown
I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I felt that fate had made sport of us all.
~ S?seki Natsume, Kokoro