Fate Quotes

Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.

~ Holly Robinson

I have chosen a life that depends on one’s awareness that every breath may be his last, every step may bring his downfall, and every word may stir betrayal. In truth, I must live in conscious ignorance of the mere thread that holds my life aloft, trusting that God alone has the power to sever it, and that He will do so only when my work on earth is complete.

~ Nicole Sager

He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.

~ Victor Hugo

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

~ Neal Shusterman

Why can’t I remember that not once have I ever seen a coin, whether grimy copper or bright gold, that had but one side.

~ Andrew Levkoff

My death granted immortality.With one look, I knew he’d be my undoing…” Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy

~ Sarah J. Pepper

How fate is stubborn and holds to habit.

~ Susan Abulhawa

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom share my body and life and money and energy with.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

What is life if you don't have a dream to chase?

~ Joanne Mcclean

One has to be at least as ancient as I am now to see that if you try to make sense of life, if you look for patterns and meaning, not only are you bound to be disappointed, you are likely to waste a good deal of precious time.

~ Andrew Levkoff

Fate rolls with laughter in the distance.

~ Trish Millburn

Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want

~ Amish Tripathi

Ka was a wheel, it was also a net from which none ever escaped.

~ Stephen King

All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown - even when we don't want to and we think we don't need to.

~ Paulo Coelho

Fate is but a dying wish... Of a world that is beyond control. Like a single lotus flower, the future blossoms; Upon its petals, two people shall be free.

~ Youka Nitta

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~ Scott Neustadter

All we can do is pray, Ma, pray.No, Child, these are the deeds of human beings. Planned by the brains of humans, and by the warped hearts of humans. It is to people we must speak our words. God has never sided with the defeated.

~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions were raised: 'Ka.

~ Stephen King

He talked about luck and fate and numbers coming up, yet he never ventured a nickel at the casinos because he knew the house had all the percentages. And beneath his pessimism, his bleak conviction that all the machinery was rigged against him, at the bottom of his soul was a faith that he was going to outwit it, that by carefully watching the signs he was going to know when to dodge and be spared. It was fatalism with a loophole, and all you had to do to make it work was never miss a sign. Survival by coordination, as it were. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who can see it coming and jump aside. Like a frog evading a shillelagh in a midnight marsh.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Find then follow the path that enables you to live the life you want to live. Don't be blow by the winds of fate. Don't be a creation of circumstances.

~ Steven Redhead

Often subtle clues are not obvious enough for the stubborn or stupid. This is when God stops throwing crumbs and starts throwing the whole piece of bread. If you step on moldy bread then you know you have waited too long.

~ Shannon L. Alder

LIfe is just a game of chance, a dance with fate if you let it be so. Or you could chose to play by your rules to win.

~ Steven Redhead

I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards.

~ Alice Hoffman

If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation himself… and he had an idea that the lessons, far from being done, were just beginning.

~ Stephen King

Time whips up cream for those who are ready for dessert.

~ Lara Biyuts

Every decent man in America ought to swoon with joy for the opportunity to crush with his heel the woolly head of this black lizard, to keep him from scuttling on his belly farther over the earth and spitting forth his venom of death!

~ Richard Wright

You cannot force things apart that are bound at the heart.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

~ Robert Penn Warren

Fate will unwind as it must!

~ Burton Raffel

This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, before, and from which everything will run. But now, my love, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere.

~ A.s. Byatt

Every person makes a difference. And the choices we make, the things we do—they matter.” She looked up into Will’s eyes. “And now I do believe in fate. Especially the kind we make ourselves.

~ Maurissa Guibord

Quand le doigt montre le ciel, l’imbécile regarde le doigt. [When a finger is pointing up to the sky, only a fool looks at the finger.]

~ Jean-Pierre Jeunet

To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body.

~ Etgar Keret

I've heard fate talked of. It's not a word I use. I think we make our own choices. I think how we live our lives is our own doing, and we cannot fully hope on dreams and stars. But dreams and stars can guide us, perhaps. And the heart's voice is a strong one. Always is.

~ Susan Fletcher

It's fate, but fate just gives us a nudge in the right direction onthe fast lane, I guarantee she doesn't have her hands in your pockets while she's doing it

~ Shelly Crane

I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

~ Derek Walcott

It was quite a wedding and as I stood there watching I realized something I'd forgotten a long time ago. Sometimes in life there really are bonds formed that can never be broken. Sometimes you really can find that one person who will stand by you no matter what. Maybe you will find it in a spouse and celebrate it with your dream wedding. But there's also the chance that the one person you can count on for a lifetime, the one person who knows you sometimes better than you know yourself is the same person who's been standing beside you all along.

~ Greg Depaul

Don't let circumstances determine your fate. Choose your fate and mold circumstances to fit your fate of choice.

~ D.b. Harrop

She had never believed in fate. She still did not. It would be nonsense of freedom of will and choice, and it was through such freedom that we worked our way through life and learned what we needed to learn. But sometimes, it seemed to her, there was something, some sign, to nudge one along in a certain direction. What one chose to do with that nudge was up to that person.

~ Mary Balogh

Would the truth be silenced, or would it try to break throughMeaning if someone loves you and its meant to be but for unknown reasons it seems to be over would you somehow get fatalistic messages that would hint at you the truth behind the relationship- are forces at play to try and waken you up to the idea that you're actually meant to be and should be together?

~ Stephenie Meyer