Fate Quotes

2346 Fate quotes by 1440 unique authors

Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary… — Frances Mayes
Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not? — Howard Stern
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina} — Leo Tolstoy
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This… — Hilary Mantel
There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will not doubt reward them in heaven for their… — Alexandre Dumas
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses. — Democritus
...This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond...We never look beyond our assumptions and, what's worse,… — Muriel Barbery
When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate. — Sara Gruen
this is what happens to the plans of humans, it is when they make them in the midst of their pleasures that death cuts the… — Marquis de Sade
All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe. — Joni Mitchell
TRIAD: Three separate highways intersect at a place no reasonable person would ever want to go. Three lives that would have been cut short, if… — Ellen Hopkins
You speak of destiny as if it was fixed. — Philip Pullman
We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair. — Philip Pullman
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it. — Goldie Hawn
After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women seemed… — Lorrie Moore
Nothing is ever truly set by fate. In one blink, everything changes. Even though it should be a clear, sunny day, the softest whisper into… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one… — Shirley Jackson
Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible. — Lisa Kleypas
What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation… — C.S. Lewis
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have… — Theodore Roethke
Yeah, but you’re a god of fate. Can’t you change that? (Kat) You’re thinking like a child, Katra. Things that appear simple very seldom are.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
But his pantheon would have survived. (Kat) Would it? Fate is never that simple. It doesn’t go in a straight line, and the more you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
But if fate won’t be denied...if it’s set, how could there be infinite possibilities? (Kat) Only certain aspects are fated. The outcome isn’t. It was… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life calls the tune, we dance. — John Galsworthy

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