Quotes About Fate

The most amazing things happen by chance.

Endymion, you are my first love, my only love... even if we're reborn, in another life, we'll find each other... and then... We'll fall in love again... - Princess Serenity

I always fancied having a destiny,

So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate. But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

It could be verified that no princess was ever asked whether she wanted to be rescued and carried off by a dragon-slayer to a fate (no doubt) worse than death.

VICTRIX CAVSA DIIS PLACVIT SED VICTA PVELLIS

I decided that Orion needed to die after the second time he saved my life.

When there was nothing left to gain, nothing more to lose, when one was face-to-face with the moment of greatest despair, to speak to God in love and thanks, rather than to curse Him and one's fate, was the ultimate choice of any human creature, and perhaps the ultimate expression of one's humanity.

So you see, we are not free to choose our fate. There is a yoke to be borne and freedom is only an illusion. I am not free. God has put me here on earth for a reason.

It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.

Some things can't be avoided, sir. Death comes for us all.

fuck fate. We make our own destinies.

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

I have seen in the most significant of circumstances, that some little thing always decides great events.

The inevitable fate of large groups is to perish because of lack of unity.

Le hasard est le seul roi légitime dans l'univers.

I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

I am the instrument of providence, she will use me as long as I accomplish her designs, then she will break me like a glass.

Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.