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Quotes About Fate

We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune.
~ Appius Claudius Caecus
I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me.
~ Unknown
O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.
~ William Shakespeare
Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
~ Alexander Pope
It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.
~ James Ellroy
The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future. —Charlie
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
~ John Dryden
POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future.
~ Samuel Beckett
I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Impossible to see, the future is.
~ Frank Oz
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.
~ George Orwell, 1984
The future is just a memory that has yet to be born
~ Dean Cavanagh
Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
~ Alexander Pope
In your past lies your future. [Acheron Parthenopaeus]
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Why would you train an instrument of destruction? (Jericho) We all choose our destinies. Our birth doesn't dictate our future unless we allow it. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.
~ Indira Gandhi
O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.
~ John Milton
She'll prophesy your death. She won't say when.
~ Joni Mitchell
I am not Nostradamus.Nor would I want to be. I'm convinced being able to tell the future is the worst superpower. I'd rather be invisible and being invisible never ends well. Just read H. G. Wells!
~ Justine Larbalestier
Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.
~ Kate Morton
Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.
~ Kate Morton
Talking about the future, like we had a clue. Never plans that one day, I'd be losing you
~ Katy Perry