Fate Quotes
If you pursue this road that you've embarked upon, you will eventually come to moral decisions that ...
Show MoreHe watched the fire and if he saw portents there it was much the same to him. He would live to look ...
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But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry (of lif...
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The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Sup...
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A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Will or nill. Any man who could discover h...
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The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth...
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He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That i...
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If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall...
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Love is like recognition. It's the moment when you catch sight of someone and you think There is som...
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I guess it's funny how life turns out?" she tried. "Not last I checked," Errol said with a snort.

I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in k...
Show MoreYou are a Chosen Man. You are Parmenion, the Death of Nations. A hundred thousand souls will yousend...
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If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all t...
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What was destiny? What was the power that shaped the patterns and attempted to enforce them? God? Sh...
Show MoreIn twenty-one years, I have not considered changing to Todd. The bizarre course of my life suggests ...
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These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or go...
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These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good,...
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Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

Fate isn't a straight road," I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to b...
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You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same s...
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There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they ...
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he knew that fate was only a mythological concept

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was...
Show MoreEverywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and pass...
Show MoreIt took only a second for another to arrive on the same path as yours and change your life to a poin...
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It seems to me that no matter whether you marry, settle down or live with a bird or not, certain one...
Show MoreI too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.

Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me perso...
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What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? Wh...
Show MoreGreat paintings—people flock to see them, they draw crowds, they’re reproduced endlessly on coffee m...
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You could study the connections for years and never work it out-it was all about things coming toget...
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. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own f...
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As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go...
Show MoreWe are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be ...
Show MoreFate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
I fear no fate for you are my fate, my sweet.
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
In time you shall see Fate approach youIn the shape of your own image in the mirror.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping...
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If I had spoken to him out loud, he would have understood the tragic fate of those who came back, le...
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There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio...
Show MoreI thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the san...
Show MoreThere is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction...
Show MoreBut I was always coming here. I though about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long...
Show MoreWe gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--on...
Show MoreThere is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction...
Show MoreDeath wears a big hat.
It's a breath you took too late.It's a death that's worse than fate.
When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of v...
Show MoreMen are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over a...
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Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has...
Show MoreThe ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not on...
Show MoreWhen I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, what's the rest o...
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No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Fate has carried me'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--Not shrink and let the shaft pass by...
Show MoreAs you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

A sweet fate oft hides a sinner's heart.

To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot...
Show MoreThere is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.
If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan...
Show More... and then beginning to go back to what you can't even remember.

Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his s...
Show MoreA certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying t...
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To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably b...
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I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really un...
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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing direction.

And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter ho...
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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but th...
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Anyway, it seems to me that the way most people go on living (I suppose there are a few exceptions),...
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A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compar...
Show MoreI trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, ...
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You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey
What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own...
Show MoreCharacter is destiny

Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; ...
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The frenzies of the chase had by this time worked them bubblingly up, like old wine worked anew. Wha...
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Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this s...
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Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a bil...
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Come what will, one comfort's always left — that unfailing comfort is, it's all predestinated.

Fate and character are different names for the same idea.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we c...
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Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive...
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I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ...
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He talked about luck and fate and numbers coming up, yet he never ventured a nickel at the casinos b...
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Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a...
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In the centre of Bond was a hurricane-room, the kind of citadel found in old-fashioned houses in the...
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It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and dis...
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I was irritated by the way he conflated his own shifting needs with an impersonal destiny. I want it...
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