Fate Quotes

Delphine witnessed awful things occurring to other humans. Worse than that, she was powerless to alter their fate. It would be that way all her life--disasters, falling like chairs all around her, falling so close they disarranged her hair, but not touching her.

~ Louise Erdrich

The trigger has been squeezed, the deathly mechanism has been enabled, the fatal course of a bullet has been set. No amount of bleating or praying or wailing of cajoling can halt it or stall it or call it back.

~ Nicola Barker

The sun's rays don't bother me. No they cast down such a wonderful heat. Masking beauty, by a terrible fate.

~ Sara Quin

But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of mere ill fortune.

~ Zoë Heller

Embrace your sacred existence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Thinking more deeply into things usually left alone helps us to find bubbles of truth and clarity. When we realize we have power over our minds, we find strength, and that helps us float high along the forces of fate that order our motions within shapeless space.

~ Kayla Severson

The point is, there is no point. Philip spoke up surprisingly. No one here gets out alive. And over a sufficient period of time, all choices tend to normalize on a curve of random distribution.You mean if you wait long enough, nothing happens?

~ Rosemary Edghill

Every breath we take from the airTakes oxygen from an insect’s lungs mid-prayerAnd every exhalation does loudly declareThat in the currency of life, we’re millionaires.A butterfly flapped it’s wings and Rome fellA passerby’s whistle cracked the liberty bellAnd I dare urge the daring not to yellLest we so bid a skyscraper a rough farewell.A snake’s tongue slithered and man did sinLet me tell you how the waves from a shark’s finDid set the tides on D-Day and let the allies win;Chance and destiny are identical twins.A word was spoken and the earth createdAnother phrase and the future was dictatedAnd so every action must be carefully weightedWe just never know how things are interrelated.

~ Justin Wetch

There's no destiny, you just decide where you end.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?

~ Bob Dylan

Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.

~ Russell Green

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

~ Liane Cardes

That that is is.

~ William Shakespeare

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

~ Samuel Butler

Whatever limits us we call Fate.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Certain signs precede certain events.

~ Cicero

See how the Fates their gifts allot. For A is happy - B is not. Yet B is worthy I dare say Of more prosperity than A.

~ W. S. Gilbert

Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

~ Seneca

He who does not desire or fear the uncertain day or capricious fate is equal to the gods above and loftier than mortals.

~ Justus Lipsius

The worst is not always certain but it's very likely.

~ French Proverb

It is a long road from conception to completion.

~ Molière

God keeps the wicked to give them time to repent.

~ Sophie Rostopchine Sigur

Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.

~ Latin Proverb

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

~ Henry Miller

That which God writes on thy forehead thou wilt come to it.

~ The Koran

When its time has come the prey goes to the hunter.

~ Persian Proverb

It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.

~ Theodor Herzl

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

~ Antony Sher

To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.

~ Ariel Sharon

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

~ Amelia Barr

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.

~ Robert Zubrin

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

~ Duke Ellington

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

~ Alexander Pope

I feel blessed. I never wanted to be an actor. It just happened all by chance and fate. I was studying to be a teacher.

~ John Ortiz

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

~ James Shirley