Quotes About Fate

I could centre my Happiness in you, I cannot expect to engross your heart so entirely -- indeed if I thought you felt as much for me as I do for you at this moment I do not think I could restrain myself from seeing you again tomorrow for the delight of one embrace. But no -- I must live upon hope and Chance. In case of the worst that can happen, I shall still love you -- but what hatred shall I have for another!

To be happy with you seems such an impossibility! it requires a luckier Star than mine! it will never be.

How horrid was the chance of slipping into the ground instead of into your arms -- the difference is amazing Love. Death must come at last; Man must die, as Shallow says; but before that is my fate I fain would try what more pleasures than you have given, so sweet a creature as you can give.

I would have borne it as I would bear death if fate was in that humour: but I should as soon think of choosing to die as to part from you.

Fortuna, that vicious slut.

It will all end very badly, Gus

The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience of the comfortable. There could be a disturbing feeling, however fleeting, of unease, even guilt.

Men of genius do not destroy themselves along with so many others and invite such a dismal end.

At the same time King David had told how God's truth was written in nature for men to read, he had also begged to be kept free from 'the great transgression': doing wrong when one believes one is doing right. How easy, when one followed the promptings of the traitorous heart, to convince oneself that pure selfishness is the ultimate selflessness, that desire is fate, that murder is self-sacrifice.

When Angelo tugged these boots on this morning, tightened and tied the laces, he had no inkling they would be his funeral wear.

Sometimes you wonder, I mean really wonder. I know we make our own reality, and we always have a choice, but how much is preordained? Is there always a fork in the road, and are there two preordained paths that are equally preordained? There could be hundreds of paths where one could go this way or that way -- there's a chance, and it's very strange sometimes.

Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Somewhat ironically, Clarke later committed suicide as a result of a 'violent and hopeless passion for a very beautiful lady of a rank superior to his own'. To decide the method he tossed a coin: heads he would hang himself, tails he would drown. The coin landed on its side in a mud patch, so he shot himself.

Luck is the residue of design.

Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.

There are no coincidences. Every event we experience and every person we meet has intentionally been put in our path to help raise our level of consciousness .

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

There are no coincidences in the universe, only convergences of Will, Intent, and Experience.

GLOUCESTERNow, good sir, what are you?EDGARA most poor man made tame to fortune's blows, Who by the art of known and feeling sorrowsAm pregnant to good pity.