Fate Quotes

2346 Fate quotes by 1440 unique authors

Even a fool learns something once it hits him. — Homer
If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to… — Paulo Coelho
...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the… — Jose Saramago
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to… — Douglas Coupland
Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful,… — Alberto Manguel
Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time. — Diana Wynne Jones
I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo. — Anne Fadiman
Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure -… — Charlotte Bronte
And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over.… — Amy Tan
I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart… — Alexander Pushkin
Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle. — Dodie Smith
You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you… — Judith McNaught
I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make… — Saul Bellow
I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened. — Katherine Paterson
when fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble. — Paulo Coelho
You imagine that there's no use struggling against fate, that she will always have her way, no matter what we do. But don't you see?… — Gary L. Blackwood
I am the god Apostolos. The Harbinger of Telikos. The Final Fate of all. Beloved son of Apollymi the Great Destroyer. My will makes the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see… — Homer
... the human body is much stronger than we think. It seems to laugh at the cobwebs of despair that the heart weaves before our… — Consuelo de Saint-ExupÃ©ry
One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the… — Bret Easton Ellis
What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare)… — Aldous Huxley
Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate. — Sigrid Undset
Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of… — Arthur C. Clarke
The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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