Quotes About Fate

But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.

Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel. It began the first week of summer, a strange and breathless time when accident, or fate, bring lives together. When people are led to do things, they've never done before. On this summer's day, not so very long ago, the wheel set lives in motion in mysterious ways.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

The Americans have their spies here, and we have our people over there. You, however, are not simply a spy. You're a Soviet citizen—and a traitor. An entirely different fate awaits you.

Geography is fate.

It's as if what was to come was already laid out before us, that our fate lay in the geography toward which we were blithely driving.

Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth while.

The sacred geometry of chance, sir.

God will give him blood to drink!

There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

How swiftly fate can make or unmake kings.

If there's someone you like and they like you back…It's close to a miracle…

You know," she murmured, "we're all heading straight to hell." "Yes," said Masako, giving her a bleak look. "It's like riding downhill with no brakes." "You mean, there's no way to stop?" "No, you stop all right - when you crash.

Nothing in this universe occurs by accident.

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

A prince may be seen happy today and ruined tomorrow without having shown any chance in his character. For the prince who relies entirely on fortune is lost when it changes...

things get worked through…or work themselves through, we probably don't have all that much to do with it. we like to think we do, though, right?

All preordained A prisoner in chains A victim of venomous fate Kicked in the face You can't pray for a place In heaven's unearthly estate Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet

I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.

Be absolute for death; for either death or life shall be the sweeter.

Anna's illusion of control had been smashed years before with the sudden, meaningless death of her husband. In the years since, she'd made an effort not to give in to the need to put the pieces back together, but to see and know and accept with some degree of grace that life is meaningless. There is no Grand Plan. Everything doesn't happen for the best. One can knock till one's knuckles are bloody and the door may not be opened.

When things like this happen there's just nothing to be done about it; even suffering itself is a mere waste of time.