Quotes About Fate

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.

I don't think unhappiness is fated.

Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?

A religious people is a people with purpose. So if the grain fails, or the aqueducts turn muddy, it can be Jupiter's fault, not his.

One second, one, is all that separates life from death.

A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?

The gods where like the weather; sometimes good, sometimes bad, and either way, always beyond her.

Not all of our heartless plans work as we intend; nor do all of our good intentions. We are where we are, and we can rarely predict where we will go, no matter how firm our beliefs.

Michelle Stimpson

I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.

I never knew how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world. But now I understand.

Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the liquor weaker, the gods kinder, the dice hotter - it might have all ended up in a one-sentence story.

It is often said that Anne symbolizes the six million victims of the Holocaust. I consider this statement wrong. Anne's life and death were her own individual fate, an individual fate that happened six million times over.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

As ill-luck would have it.

There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

No te parece que esa idea de la necesidad no es sino la forma suprema que el azar toma en nuestra mente?

El azar es el íntimo ritmo del mundo, el azar es el alma de la poesía.

Hay quien cree seguir una estrella; yo creo seguir una doble estrella, melliza. Y esa estrella no es sino la proyección misma del sendero al cielo, la proyección del azar.

Dios, cuando no sabe qué hacer de nosotros, nos mata.

Pues bien, mi señor creador don Miguel, ¡también usted se morirá, también usted, y se volverá ala nada de que salió...! ¡Dios dejará de soñarle! ¡Se morirá usted, sí, se morirá, aunque no lo quiera; se morirá usted y se morirán todos los que lean mi historia.

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.