Fate Quotes

2346 Fate quotes by 1440 unique authors

Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll… — Meg Rosoff
Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of… — Charles Baudelaire
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet,… — Ben Okri
Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and… — Gregory David Roberts
If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its own sake, but… — Martine Leavitt
Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. — Stephen Jay Gould
Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall… — Candace Bushnell
This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay. — H.G. Wells
By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate. — Aimee Friedman
On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate. — David Clement-Davies
Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never… — Banana Yoshimoto
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel. — H.G. Wells
She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning… — Lisa Genova
Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe… — Wallace Stegner
Then I saw it, and it just grabbed me. That moment, that breath just before destiny, between innocence and power. He'll pull the sword free.… — Nora Roberts
She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the… — Isabel Allende
I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate… — Denis Diderot
I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate? — Dante Alighieri
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove. — P.G. Wodehouse
Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come — William Shakespeare
...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and… — William Butler Yeats
The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote — Sarah Dessen
In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we… — Salman Rushdie
Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear… — Charlotte Bronte
Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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