Fate Quotes

2346 Fate quotes by 1440 unique authors

A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself… — Bertrand Russell
He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence — Jack Kerouac
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are! — William Makepeace Thackeray
Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to… — Orson Scott Card
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had… — Marie Corelli
The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity… — Ole Hallesby
The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul and… — Theodore Dalrymple
Fate, they say, fate- the clay that molds the events of your life, and it was the same fate that had thrown the stone of… — Faraaz Kazi
They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course not.Let's… — Markus Zusak
It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate. — Christopher Marlowe
Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate. — Sri Aurobindo
Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it? — Marquis de Sade
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate changes when you change your clothes. — Amy Tan
All fates are ‘worse than death’. — Evelyn Waugh
Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to… — Michael Ondaatje
I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out. — Rob Zombie
We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward vagaries… — Learned Hand
You'd have thought that after suffering such a loss nothing else would matter to her but that didn't seem to be how it worked. She… — Mary Lawson
Each man the architect of his own fate. — Sallust
Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of… — Henry David Thoreau
Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs… — Abraham Lincoln
We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face… — Edward Kennedy
But over the years, I've learned not to believe too much in luck or accidents; T think everything happens for a reason. There's something to… — Syd Field

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