Fate Quotes

2346 Fate quotes by 1440 unique authors

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined. — Deepak Chopra
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. — George Eliot
And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of… — Anne Rice
Fate does not seek our consent. — Terry Goodkind
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. — Francis Bacon
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. — Winston Churchill
Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically. — Philip Pullman
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most… — Ivan Turgenev
There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be… — Anthony Trollope
Within the child lies the fate of the future. — Maria Montessori
No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o'… — Terry Pratchett
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you. — Lillian Hellman
If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke. — Gregory David Roberts
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale… — Winston Churchill
In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and… — Kate DiCamillo
You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars. — Anais Nin
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must… — W. Somerset Maugham
How can we expect fate to let a righteous cause prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous… — Sophie Scholl
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a… — Hunter S. Thompson
In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love.… — Paulo Coelho
I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice. — Jeanette Winterson
This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end. — William Shakespeare
Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting — Gregory David Roberts

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