Fate Quotes

2346 Fate quotes by 1440 unique authors

The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the story… — Thomas Ligotti
Not even need and love can defeat fate... — Ursula K. Le Guin
The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such… — Albert Einstein
Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault -… — Jodi Picoult
We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it,… — Swami Vivekananda
I heed not that my earthly lot Hath - little of Earth in it - That years of love have been forgot In the hatred… — Edgar Allan Poe
Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on… — Miguel de Cervantes
I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased... I had overcome… — Helen Keller
there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. — Charles Bukowski
Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time,… — Dick Francis
From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny.… — Joyce Carol Oates
The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag. — Joseph Campbell
No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The future was with Fate. The present was our own. ~ The Poison Belt — Arthur Conan Doyle
The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of… — Clarice Lispector
How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home. — Thomas Harris
Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then,… — Larry McMurtry
Fate...may...be...thwarted. — Gail Carson Levine
All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from… — Charlotte Bronte
Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you… — Victor Hugo
Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it… — Deb Caletti
I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't… — Chuck Palahniuk
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect… — Cormac McCarthy

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