Quotes About Fate

Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole in one.

You should care about things in a way that makes it a possibility that tragedy will happen to you.

Be careful what you wish for is a very useful adage in all things magical.

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

You can gussy them up with all the pretty rationales you want, but most major life decisions are whims.

No such thing as late. Destiny picks its own time.

Chance disappears when you make a decision.

I have never held coincidence in must esteem,' said Grannie Jane. 'It always disappoints as a plot device in a novel and even more so in real life.

That's life. Whichever way you turn, Fate sticks out a foot to trip you.

Every day, the dispensing of existence.... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient.

we are, everyone of us, in arrears to death.

By the term short story I mean the recital of a destiny which is represented in a single incident; by anecdote the recital of a single incident which illumines an entire destiny.

Destiny requires you to follow the path you're on. But the path could be altered, if you set your mind to it. For me that meant holding out until the day when King Cnut owed me so much that he would have to award me an estate, land, and honor again.

ABD'de piyasaya sürülen her on üründen sekizinin kaderi ba?ar?s?zl??a mahkum.

If someone throws herself off a tall building, it may make sense to employ Newtonian physics in order to explain her immediate prospects. But it is also quite obvious that this explanation fails to address other important questions which we may wish to ask about that person's life and fate.

you have quite dampened by spirit and eagerness, and left me exhausted before I could strike a blow. There are two reasons for this: first, your cleverness in treating the subject with such remarkable and consistent moderation as to make it impossible for me to be angry with you; and secondly, the luck or chance or fate by which you say nothing on this important subject that has not been said before.

I had drunk so deeply of grief and innocently gambled so hard with fate and irony that a special kind of vision was gathering in my eyes, not entirely clear just yet. This was the same look people saw in your eyes when you have died for beauty and come to live accepting nature as life with no promise of paradise, and mad at people who couldn't see that.

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

À long terme, ils montent. - À long terme, je suis mort. (Le cuisinier, p. 147)

Man geht auf ein Loch zu, weiß, dass man hineinfallen wird, und fällt hinein.

God pays back debts without money.

What's bred in the bone comes out in the blood.' How many times had she said that to people?

Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the gen'rous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart – Samuel Johnson, 1709-84

Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat prius. Whom God would destroy, He first sends mad. Homeri Gnomologia James Duport, 1606-1679