Quotes About Fate

Whatever my path, I have faith I will end up where I need to be.

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

I'm an only child. My mum and dad are six in each family. They're both twins, and they only wanted one. I always say to them though that they're lucky - it could have all gone wrong.

My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you.

An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!

Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won

Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

There was no point in the gods trying to separate us. Whether we were on Earth or in hell, we'd spend the rest our days look for the other.

No, I might not know what's coming, but I know where you're going.

You are not one of Pentrigrel's creations. This is not where you belong. He will not keep his word to you. He is concerned only with himself. You cannot condemn yourself to this over Lunette's fate.

Here was the puppeteer who was pulling strings all over the Empire. Didn't he know that the Fates were the only ones who could tweak the threads of destiny?

Effie Seabright, we've been fated to meet you for a long time.

Maybe, if I had lied all those years ago, my life could have followed a very different path. But as it is I faithfully follow the long, long thread the Fates have woven for me.

To some, you are a way to the light and to others you will be their true destruction.

Nely Cab, Fruit of Misfortune

An accident of birth had signed her death warrant.He could mark her name off his to-do list.

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics are similar.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.

They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny, and can make mouths of fortune.