Fate Quotes

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

~ Amy Tan

Not even need and love can defeat fate...

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

~ Henry Miller

Yeah. A feeling. Like the whole point of my life from the alleys in Bangkok to the yachts and private island to coming here like a crazy person trying to fly a helicopter like all of it from birth to here point A to point Z was all some big cosmic trick to get me to meet you. - Sanjit to Lana

~ Michael Grant

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.~ The Poison Belt

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Anyway, it seems to me that the way most people go on living (I suppose there are a few exceptions), they think that the world of life (or whatever) is this place where everything is (or is supposed to be) basically logical and consistent.... It's like when you put instant rice pudding mix in a bowl in the microwave and push the button, and you take the cover off when it rings, and there you've got rice pudding. I mean, what happens in between the time when you push the switch and when the microwave rings? You can't tell what's going on under the cover. Maybe the instant rice pudding first turns into macaroni gratin in the darkness when nobody's looking and only then turns back into rice pudding. We think it's natural to get rice pudding after we put rice pudding mix in the microwave and the bell rings, but to me that's just a presumption. I would be kind of relieved if, every once in a while, after you put rice pudding mix in the microwave and it rang and you opened the top, you got macaroni gratin.

~ Haruki Murakami

I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.

~ Stephanie Pearl-Mcphee

Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time.

~ Jonathan Tropper

It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.

~ Robin Mckinley

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

~ Orhan Pamuk

TO CHANGE THE FATE OF ONE INDIVIDUAL IS TO CHANGE THE WORLD.

~ Terry Pratchett

I don’t believe in coincidence or fateBut I know one thing for sureYour face was meant to beBurned into the deepest reachesOf my blackest memories.

~ Cassia Leo

Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]

~ Ernst Jünger

Maybe it was fate that I sat next to her that day, or serendipity, divine intervention, who knows? However you look at, I got seated next to the first girl to ever really steal my heart. I was in love from that moment on.

~ Renee Carlino

It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.

~ Henry James

For an hour, blended with all she could offer, something noble had been created which had nothing to do with the physical world. And from the turn of his throat, the warmth of his hair, the strong, slender sinews of his hands, something further; which had. Though she combed the earth and searched through the smoke of the galaxies there was no being she wanted but this, who was not and should not be for Philippa Somerville.

~ Dorothy Dunnett

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more…

~ Mary Stewart

If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.

~ William Shakespeare

Fate has a twisted sense of humor.

~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and we invite it to enter. No one is strong enough or cunning enough to avert by word or deed the misfortune that is rooted in the iron laws of his character and his life.

~ Sándor Márai

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

~ William Shakespeare

You know what I think? Fate! That's what it is fate! There's a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name,but I forgot what it is. Creeps up behind him, and puts him in the basket when he ain't expecting it.

~ Georgette Heyer

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

~ Charles Dickens

How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like.

~ Jim Beaver

But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.

~ Stephen King

And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you, Oskar. It's always necessary.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Then I glanced at the ring on my finger.The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from?I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once—and you all went away.So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light.You aren’t really there at all. There isn’t anybody but me—Jane—here alone in the dark.I miss you dreadfully!

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.

~ Mary E. Pearson

I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find that pattern and be happy.

~ Mary Balogh

Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives.

~ David Wroblewski

Hide from fate all you like,” Baba Yellowlegs said as they turned away. “But it shall soon find you!

~ Sarah J. Maas

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that has nothing to do with you, This storm is you. Something inside you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up the sky like pulverized bones.

~ Haruki Murakami

We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them.

~ Simon Pegg

Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.

~ Ming-Dao Deng

In time you shall see Fate approach youIn the shape of your own image in the mirror.

~ Edgar Lee Masters

Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

~ Dante Alighieri

Perhaps fate brought us together,And the incidents in between made us close,Falling in love was a simple choice,But breaking my heart, that was yours.

~ Tanzy Sayadi

I am on my way, and tell him he better watch his ass!” Jack shouted, and I held the phone away from ear so it wouldn’t damage my eardrums. “Real mature, Jack,” Peter scoffed

~ Amanda Hocking

No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was meant to happen, that if only we knew how long the ruins would last we would never complain.

~ Mark Strand