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Quotes About Fate

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
~ Omar Khayyam
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
~ Omar Khayyam
Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.
~ Omar Khayyam
By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom.
~ Omar Khayyam
The Moving Finger writes and, having writ, Moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
~ Unknown
Como no me he preocupado de nacer, no me preocupo de morir",
~ Unknown
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
~ Oprah Winfrey
But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.
~ Oriana Fallaci
C'è spesso, nella mia vita, una sorta di fatalità. E questa fatalità, non noi, ha determinato ciò che doveva accadere. È accaduto troppo in fretta? Può darsi. Ma le cose importanti come nascere amare e morire non guardano il tempo dell'orologio, mio caro Peer Gynt.
~ Oriana Fallaci
Jakie to ma znaczenie, ?e zostaÅ'eÅ› poczÄ™te przez przypadek bÄ…d? przez omyÅ'kÄ™ - czy Å›wiat, w którym znale?liÅ›my siÄ™, nie powstaÅ' przez przypadek czy przez omyÅ'kÄ™?
~ Oriana Fallaci
Sveta had much less to say, but she sat with Lev and held his hand, and when I asked her what had made her fall in love with him, she replied, 'I knew he was my future. When he was not there, I would look for him, and he would always appear by my side. That is love.' Sveta
~ Orlando Figes
Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.
~ Orson Scott Card
My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and theres not much deserving about the matter.
~ Orson Scott Card
We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.
~ Orson Scott Card
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
~ Orson Welles
Tener o no un final feliz depende de dónde decidas detener la narración de la historia
~ Orson Welles
Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.
~ Osamu Dazai
A mere smile can determine a woman's fate. It is frightening. Fascinatingly so. I have to be careful.
~ Osamu Dazai
I have no choice. I am a person with no reason to live. I know my lot. Yes, it would be great to die one day sooner.
~ Osamu Dazai
Tomorrow will probably be another day like today. Happiness will never come my way. I know that. But it's probably best to go to sleep believing that it will surely come, tomorrow it will come.
~ Osamu Dazai
Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late.
~ Osamu Dazai
In terms of sealing your fate, there's no difference between turning right on a whim and turning right because you've come to some momentous resolve. Either way, it can't be undone.
~ Osamu Dazai
Once you've given in to that whim, your destiny is decided. There's no such thing as 'seeing what happens' in this life. To do something just to see what happens is exactly the same as just plain doing it.
~ Osamu Dazai
If things went well I would like to become his inseparable friend; but if this proved utterly impossible, I had no choice but to pray for his death.
~ Osamu Dazai