Quotes About Fate

It could just as easily have been me. That reminder of human frailty and the role that fortune and misfortune play in our lives prevented me from becoming too prideful. Better men than me had died over in the sandbox, often purely by chance. Were you in the lead vehicle, or at the tail end of the convoy? Sometimes it came down to which side of a vehicle you were sitting on when something went ka-boom. Why did the invisible shard of flying metal hit the Marine to your right instead of you?

In response the Sun asserted that Bennett's "only chance of dying an upright man will be that of hanging perpendicularly upon a rope.")

Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of Providence, which are full of eyes

you never knew how things might go on Judgment Day.

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

Knowing the workings of the discursive mind, seeing how it maneuvers to dupe us, is no small deal. When I'm paralyzed by anxiety, I'm sometimes surprised that I find the joys and the quiet times of everyday life insipid. It's as though I missed the adrenaline that rushes through me when I am in crisis mode, which is quite dramatic. The blows of fate are crushing, exhausting, but at least in the moment of struggling with them I know why I get up in the morning.

he's a dead man the minute he falls for Daisy the siren. Gatsby "run[s] faster, stretch[es] out [his] arms farther," until, propelled by all that yearning, he leans too far out toward Daisy's dock, falls into the Sound, and drowns.

FR : Nous méritons toutes nos rencontres,  elles sont accordées à notre destin et ont une signification qu'il nous appartient de découvrir EN : We deserve all our encounters, they are granted to our destiny and have a significance it behooves us to discover

Midnight falls when the dice are cast, but one can only cast the dice at Midnight.

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

I think I palsied fate; and I long took pride in this gift.

She was born without reason … to die; and she dies without reason….

Courage consists in being reliant on oneself and others to the extent that, irrespective of differences in physical and social circumstance, all manifest in their behaviour and their relationships that very same spark which makes us recognise them, which makes us crave their assent or their criticism, the spark which means we share a common fate.

True philosophy entails learning to see the world anew, and in this sense, an historical account might signify the world with as much 'depth' as a philosophical treatise. We take our fate into our own hands and through reflection we become responsible for our own history, but this responsibility also comes from a decision to which we commit our lives; and in both cases it is a violent act whose truth is confirmed through its being performed.

History is not made in advance...It depends on the will and audacity of men upon occasion, and...it contains an element of contingency and risk.

Woman, in the decadent world around us, captures a man by loving him, and, having got him, sometimes comes to admire him, which is all to the good; and, if Fate is not unkind, may descend no lower than liking and enduring.

Death, as he had said, cancelled all engagements.

Dan — Whistling Dan," he said, "I'm seeing you a long, long ways off. Partner, I'm done for." The whole body of Dan stiffened. "Done? Tex, you can't be! Five minutes ago you sat at that there table, smilin' an' talkin'!" "It doesn't take five minutes. Half a second can take a man all the way to hell!

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

The Götterdämmerung of the bourgeois world is approaching.

But what we are, we are, on account of our own diligence or negligence, and what we shall be in the future depends upon what we will to be and not upon Divine caprice or upon inexorable fate. No matter what the circumstances, it lies with us to master them, or to be mastered, as we will.