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Quotes About Fate

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
~ Charles de Gaulle
Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
~ Horace
The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors Close after us, for ever.
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.
~ Friedrich Schiller
We make our own fortune and call it destiny.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
~ Max Frisch
Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.
~ Samuel Johnson
We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.
~ Alfred Rosenberg
I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.
~ Elie Wiesel
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
~ Blaise Pascal
Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Was it fate? Was it destiny?" "I think it was Alan Blunt.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.
~ Thomas Keller
I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning.
~ Martin Buber
You and I have a rendevous with destiny.
~ Ronald Reagan
Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.
~ Johann Ludwig Tieck
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I face my demons and embrace my fate.
~ Lynda Bellingham
I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
~ Abraham Verghese
No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow