Quotes About Fate

life was just a series of events, that was all, and you had no real power over it whatsoever. You just thought you did.

Every night and every morn Some to misery are born. William Blake, 1757-1827, 'Auguries of Innocence

What goes around comes around. How true those words were.

If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its own sake, but only to avoid an early demise. No one would speak out against evil because of his own courageous soul, but only to live another day. The right to choose is man's great gift, but one thing is not his to choose--the time and means of death.

Death is the ending of all true stories.

Everyone stared at her, sorry for her but glad it had not happened to them. There were a few murmurs of sympathy, and a few people whispering all the reasons they thought Vilsa may have deserved what had happened. It is important to make people deserve what happens to them. If bad things can happen for no apparent reason, then bad things might happen to innocent us.

You gotta be there. So let me kill you and get on with it. I mean, everyone gets to kill a Robin eventually. And today it's my turn.

They were lucky to find each other. Nobody could take that away.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.

As Carthage went up in flames in 146 BCE, one eyewitness spotted him shedding a tear and heard him quoting from memory an apposite line on the fall of Troy from Homer's Iliad. He was reflecting that one day the same fate might afflict Rome. Crocodile tears or not, they made their point.

Un amargo destino persigue a los romanos, y el crimen de dar muerte a un hermano , desde que la sangre del inocente Remo fue derramada en la tierra, una maldición que recayó sobre sus descendientes».

It's like buying a lottery ticket: you might win, and until they have the drawing, you haven't lost. I

Make a wish and it will be granted along with all the unintended consequences.

Life was a strange mix of twists and turns, where incomprehensible loss often led to paths of unimaginable joy.

What's for you, won't pass you.

We've got two lives -- one we're given and the other one we make.

I stand upon the downs of life, And watch two barks of Fate sail in; The waves and winds are all at strife, I sadly wonder who will win.

Right guy wrong time, right time wrong guy.

You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.

I repeat, not the man does it, because he has nothing to say on his own destiny, because how the history of the human past is written and that book cannot be changed, so is the future which will be a part of the history and his book neither can be changed.

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name - Romeo & Juliet

For this is Wisdom; to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow To have, - to hold - and - in time, - let go.