Fate Quotes

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...

Character is destiny

Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; ...

The frenzies of the chase had by this time worked them bubblingly up, like old wine worked anew. Wha...

Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this s...

Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a bil...

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...

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive...

I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ...

He talked about luck and fate and numbers coming up, yet he never ventured a nickel at the casinos b...

Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a...

In the centre of Bond was a hurricane-room, the kind of citadel found in old-fashioned houses in the...

It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and dis...

I was irritated by the way he conflated his own shifting needs with an impersonal destiny. I want it...

...[R]eason of itself, independent on all experience, ordains what ought to take place, that accordi...

He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitt...

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the ...

Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'I...

For nothing is evil in the beginning.

You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, a...

I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; ...

And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expecte...

I fear mostly my inability to capture all the things that come, I fear their mysterious source, I fe...

It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiti...

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still tryi...

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

He is cured by faith who is sick of fate.

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against ...

Fate loves the fearless.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is f...

The ancients believed in Fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. ...

Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?' Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future harde...

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

In my youth, the question chiefly important to me was—What sort of man shall I decide to be? At nine...

You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let th...

Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.

You beg fate to make your fears into reality, Aleran. But for the moment, they are only fears. They ...

In any random slaughter, the difference between living and dying rarely has anything to do with will...

In any random slaughter, the difference between living and dying rarely has anything to do with will...

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to...

By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,And not in utter loneline...

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.

It is the lumps and trialsThat tell us whether we shall be knownAnd whether our fate can be exemplar...

I hold that there is a mysterious connection between the fate of this country and that of Mexico so ...

Tis Fate that flings the dice,And as she flingsOf kings makes peasants,And of peasants kings.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Whatever is, is in its causes just;But purblind manSees but a part o' th' chain; the nearest link;Hi...

The river of life, of mysterious laws and mysterious choice, flows past a deserted embankment; and a...

Life calls the tune, we dance.

Really," said Winifred suddenly; "it almost seems like Fate. Only that's so old-fashioned.

There is no shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.

There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.

Who am I to say that these things might nit be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact th...

When an orphan is depressed," wrote Wilbur Larch, "he is attracted to telling lies. A lie is at leas...

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

All is best, though we oft doubt, what the unsearchable dispose, of highest wisdom brings about.

No one doubts your courage, but you are a headstrong knight and when you choose a way you cannot cha...

And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to he...

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

Lost in these imaginary illusions I forgot my destiny – that of the hunted.

It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable ...

The ways of heaven are dark and intricate;Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.

Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him o...

It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

That men would die was a matter of necessity; which men would die, though, was a matter of circumsta...

As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves y...

Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of v...

Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almo...

Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for th...

But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. Bu...

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...

Fate determines your caste. You must accept it and live according to the rules."You can't really bel...

It is true. Indeed, that is why I dared not speak. I have yearned to be again at the side of my belo...

What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

The myriad choices of his fateSet themselves out upon a plateFor him to chooseWhat had he to lose

And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth ...

The pattern glitters with cruelty. The blue beads are colored with fish blood, the reds with powdere...

Delphine witnessed awful things occurring to other humans. Worse than that, she was powerless to alt...

When I get this feeling, this compulsion, I always do what it tells me. I can't explain where it com...

It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.

Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfa...

But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you d...

Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserv...

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

We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner.

It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocabl...

... they imagine that the life they are obliged to lead is not that for which they are really fitted...

It was that evening, when my mother abdicated her authority, that marked the beginning, along with t...

If the gods have determined about me and about the things which must happen to me, they have determi...

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,bu...

The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things...

A life path may have strange twists and turnings, and we do not always end up where we intend to go...

Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of ...