Quotes About Fate

so full of life and irresistible, end up disgraced and deposed?

Two of his sons were captured, one of them Sir John, who was executed next day at Aberdeen.

the most breathtaking and dramatic events of Mary's life were about to unfold.

Within a fortnight of her arrival, Mary knew that her whole future lay in Cecil's hands.

Rarely is success an accident, but when it is, rarely does it last.

These violent delights will have violent ends!" My son didn't get the Westworld reference.

Owen Meany believed that "coincidence" was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design – more powerful and unstoppable than the Yankee Flyer. (a train)

Here in St. Cloud's," Dr. Larch wrote, " I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won't be may

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly-as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth-the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.

YOUR BOREDOM IS YOUR PROBLEM, said Owen Meany. IT'S YOUR LACK OF IMAGINATION THAT BORES YOU. HARDY HAS THE WORLD FIGURED OUT. TESS IS DOOMED. FATE HAS IT IN FOR HER. SHE'S A VICTIM; IF YOU'RE A VICTIM, THE WORLD WILL USE YOU. WHY SHOULD SOMEONE WHO'S GOT SUCH A WORKED-OUT WAY OF SEEING THE WORLD BORE YOU? WHY SHOULDN'T YOU BE INTERESTED IN SOMEONE WHO'S WORKED OUT A WAY TO SEE THE WORLD? THAT'S WHAT MAKES WRITERS INTERESTING!

It was quality that killed Lilly; it was the end of The Great Gatsby, which was not her ending, which was not an ending within her grasp.

people can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.

MADE FOR TELEVISION!' said Owen Meany.

Every time you throw a snail off the dock, Ray teased Homer Wells, you're making someone start his whole life over. Maybe I'm doing him a favor, said Homer Wells, the orphan.

An aura of fate had marked him. He moved slowly; he often appeared to be lost in thought, or in his imagination—as if his future were predetermined, and he wasn't resisting it.

Not every collision course comes as a surprise.

The chain of events, the links in our lives—what leads us where we're going, the courses we follow to our ends, what we don't see coming, and what we do—all this can be mysterious, or simply unseen, or even obvious.

The only reason for something to happen in a novel is that it's the perfect thing to have happen at that time.

When you lie, it makes you feel in charge of your life. Telling lies is very seductive to orphans. I know because I tell them, too. I love to lie. When you lie, you feel as if you have cheated fate - your own, and everybody else's.

Okay," I said. There are these moments when you see the course of your life unfolding, and you feel powerless to alter it.

You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day the opportunities stop, you know?

It was a deus-ex-machina world!

We tell him, now, that he might have helped her that time, but in the long run, we know, doom floats.