Fate Quotes

Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it--thus!

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

~ Woodrow Wilson

If free will means to do what you want, then it does not exist. Many of its staunchest proponents have met the wheel of fate without opposing it

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A person's name is a fate-conjuring incantation.

~ Mark Leyner

It’s an evil fate to fall into the hands of a persecutor who was once persecuted.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Now of course in hindsight, such a wonderful thing, though never around when you actually need it, I know that I always loved her deeply.

~ Ross Turner

..I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things, I could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before I got sick and died.. which I figured was my natural fate.

~ Mitch Albom

Warner. A white bird with streaks of gold like a crown atop its head. A fair - skinned boy with gold hair, the leader of Sector 45. It was always him. All along . The link.

~ Tahereh Mafi

Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates.

~ Robin Hobb

You always have a choice. You can't stop what's coming, but you can decide how you meet it. The fate of the world is out of your hands. It always was. But your fate--what you decide to do right now-- is still up to you.

~ G. Willow Wilson

It is the lumps and trialsThat tell us whether we shall be knownAnd whether our fate can be exemplary, like a star.

~ John Ashbery

But I must warn you, Miss Hathaway ... life has a way of fouling up our plans. I speak from experience.

~ Lisa Kleypas

The difference between me and Duchi, in one sentence, is this: I say, things will be all right, and if they aren't, that's all right too. Duchi says, things will not be all right, and if they are, that's not all right either. OK, two sentences.

~ Assaf Gavron

If we are to tempt fate, then let us not be cowards about it.

~ Christopher Paolini

Maybe she hated being out of control, knowing that someone or something else was dictating her fate. Because it's really not fair. A drunk driver runs a red light, and you end up dead. A guy in a movie theater coughs on you, and you catch some rare, fatal disease. You sit in class minding your own business, and there's the kid from sixth period holding a gun in his hand. Why should other people be in control? Why should someone else get to choose when you die?

~ Chelsea Sedoti

If you pursue this road that you've embarked upon, you will eventually come to moral decisions that will take you completely by surprise

~ Cormac Mccarthy

I’m not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare—or, if not, it’s some equally brainy lad—who says that it’s always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all.

~ Sarah Dessen

Everything in life had its phases, and if you were smart, you learned to appreciate them all. What really mattered, though, were the people in those moments with you. Memories are what we have and what we keep, and I held mine close. The ones I knew well, like a night on the beach with a boy who would always live in my heart, and the ones yet to come with another.

~ Sarah Dessen

For you, I wish for second chances

~ Sarah Dessen

... life is a series of tiny, unavoidable decisions.

~ Steven Galloway

I realize we all walk around pretending we have some control over our fate, because to recognize the truth--that no matter what we do, the bottom will fall out when we least expect it--is just too unbearable to live with.

~ Julie Buxbaum

...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happened, did.

~ Raymond E. Feist

The most fundamental change in people at this time was a weakening of their sense of individual identity, their sense of fate grew correspondingly stronger.

~ Vasily Grossman

It felt like fate. That if Gray Shadow and Caius could not find their way to each other, their bloodlines eventually did.

~ S.j. Himes

Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and countries, rules the whole world through the relation of supply and demand—a relation which, as an English economist says, hovers over the earth like the fate of the ancients, and with invisible hand allots fortune and misfortune to men, sets up empires and overthrows empires, causes nations to rise and to disappear—while with the abolition of the basis of private property, with the communistic regulation of production (and implicit in this, the destruction of the alien relation between men and what they themselves produce), the power of the relation of supply and demand is dissolved into nothing, and men get exchange, production, the mode of their mutual relation, under their own control again?

~ Karl Marx

Death is inevitable destiny.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Since then many years have passed, and in those years I have often thought how strange are the ways of Fate. Set on one's waylay a single ill-considered spontaneous remark, one is led into a course of action that cannot be stopped whether one wants to or not. At the moment of departure we do not even dream of where our voyage will take us. Even when we have started we deluded ourselves for an unconscionable time that in a short while it will soon be over, and we shall be free again to do as we please. Sometimes, in forests, one meets two such paths that, although divided perhaps by a stream or ditch, seem at first sight to run parallel to one another. One imagines that whichever one chooses will lead us to the same place. However, slowly the paths diverge...and never meet again.

~ Miklós Bánffy

He pondered long over this, for might not another man, returning to another valley, have found none of these things? Why was it given to one man to have his pain transmuted into gladness? Why was it given to one man to have such an awareness of God?

~ Alan Paton

The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.

~ Daniel Silva

My fate is written by my God. It can never be wrong.

~ Irfa Rahat

Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

~ Publilius Syrus

Though I did not know her exact address, that she appeared to live almost within breathing distance of Robin, and that I lived with him, and that her pictures showed that she was now dating the mysterious Rupert Hunter, our despotic mothers, our absent fathers, the borders we had both crossed, all our many parallels and connections at every point, could not be chance. I saw it as evidence of the hidden connections between things, an all-powerful algorithm that sifted through chaos, singling out soulmates.

~ Olivia Sudjic

It is not your fate that is your verdict, but how you deal with your fate. If you find yourself in a story contrary to every vow you have made or wish to make, then you must silence your mind and observe everything closely. You must see the patterns of possible fates in the world around you and choose that which your holy soul tells you to choose. - Thordis, Thunder priestess

~ Maria Kvilhaug

It was like she had been playing 'nhodo' with her life, foolishly trying to outsmart an imaginary playmate named Fate.

~ Panashe Chigumadzi

Fate always found its mark, one way or another.

~ Janell Rhiannon

No man his the master of his fate.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Fate is for the weak--those people who don't have enough power or will to shape life into what they need it to be.

~ Erin Watt

He had the strangest feeling come over him, which he'd never before known. Like he was meeting his best friend, for the first time. It was recognition mixed with relief...but also some amount of joy. Like, Oh, there you are! It's so great to meet you finally! I've missed you!

~ Elizabeth Gannon

But that's the thing about fate. It comes whether you're ready for it or not.

~ Jennifer Anne Kogler