Quotes About Fate

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

Celia" Celia, we know, is sixty-five, Yet Celia's face is seventeen; Thus winter in her breast must live, While summer in her face is seen. How cruel Celia's fate, who hence Our heart's devotion cannot try; Too pretty for our reverence, Too ancient for our gallantry!

So Man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown. Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal, 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

So Man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown. Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal, 'This but a part we see, and not a whole.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...

It's a lucky man who leaves early from life's banquet, before he's drained to the dregs his goblet - full of wine; yes, it's a lucky man who has not read life's novel to the end, but has been wise enough to part with it abruptly - like me with my Onegin.

While passing through an obscure nook of Notre Dame cathedral, Victor Hugo noticed the Greek work for fate carved in the stone. He imagined a tormented soul driven to engrave this word. From this seed sprang his monumental novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

but the pathos and the gift of life is that we cannot know which will be our defining heartbreak, or our most victorious joy.

I BELIEVE IN DESTINY, IN FATE, IN THE MAGIC OF THE UNIVERSE. I BELIEVE WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER LOVE. EITHER IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN OR IT'S NOT..

If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun

You can't make yourself fall in love, just as you can't choose who you fall in love with.

Time is the architect of fate, fleeting omen, pure phantom in enchanting light of absence, and our life the play of love and death, only love will never die, because In love no longer 'thou' and 'I' exist, only the blossom of sacred unity.

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

The permanent passions of mankind--love, religion, patriotism, humanitarianism, hate, revenge, ambition; the conflict between free will and fate; the rise and fall of empires--these are all great themes, and, if greatly treated, and in accordance with the essentials applicable to all poetry, may produce poetry of the loftiest kind.

I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard

L'homme est un apprenti, la douleur est son maître. Et nul ne se connaît tant qu'il n'a pas souffert. C'est une dure loi, mais une loi suprême, vieille comme le monde et la fatalité, qu'il nous faut du malheur recevoir le baptême et qu'à ce triste prix tout doit être acheté...

Désespoir ! Ne pourrai-je même jouer ma vie ? ne pourrai-je tenter même le plus désespéré de tous les partis ??!

Non ; cette fois j'ai gagé que je t'emmènerais ; allons, viens, mauvaise tête, et ne trouble le plaisir de personne. Chacun son tour ; c'était hier le tien, aujourd'hui tu es passé de mode ; celui qui ne sait pas se conformer à son sort est aussi fou qu'un vieillard qui fait le jeune homme.

D'ailleurs la mort est toujours là ; n'est-elle pas partout sous les pieds de l'homme, qui la rencontre à chaque pas dans cette vie ? L'eau, le feu, la terre, tout la lui offre sans cesse ; il la voit partout dès qu'il la cherche, il la porte à son côté.

What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.

I haven't wasted many opportunities that fate gave me.

Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.