Fate Quotes

2346 Fate quotes by 1440 unique authors

If fate is a millstone, we are the grist. There is nothing we can do. So I wish for strength. If I cannot protect them… — Tite Kubo
Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength;… — Winston Churchill
In so many millennia, the humans never did figurs love out. How much is physical, how much in the mind? How much accident and how… — Stephenie Meyer
I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have… — Lisa See
Hey Nana, If Cinderella's glass slipper fits so perfectly, I wonder why it fell off along the way? I can't help but think that it… — Ai Yazawa
He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world...all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger and the thirst.… — Daphne du Maurier
No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide… — Slash
Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate. — Miguel de Unamuno
Will picked a single blossom from a gorse bush beside him; it shone bright yellow on his grubby hand. "People are very complicated," he said… — Susan Cooper
Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness. — Diane Setterfield
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. — Thomas Mann
An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do… — William Butler Yeats
Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true… — J R Ward
We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. — Jane Austen
And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house,… — Mary Oliver
If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down. — Madeleine L'Engle
There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and… — David Guterson
What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate. — Carl Jung
It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance. — Ian Mcewan
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. — George Santayana
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no… — Ellen Hopkins
Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then… — Salman Rushdie
History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse. — Chuck Palahniuk
Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived. — Brian Jacques
They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They… — Rick Riordan

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