Fate Quotes
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To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.
Melissa Etheridge -
Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such a fate, For that is my conception of hell-fire.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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So this is the fate of one who lives for vengeance..
Wang Yi -
You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people's cards.
Anna Brackett -
Hard work and talent are crucial to success, and intangible qualities like heart and clutch are generally real – but luck is just as important. Nobody gets to the top by accident, but nobody’s on top without some pretty phenomenal accidents of fate.
Andrew Sharp -
It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.
Seneca the Younger -
'You are certain you can keep the truth from her?' 'Sure,' Ed said confidently. 'I know I can.' 'All right.' The Old Man nodded slowly. 'I will send you back. But you must tell no one.' He swelled visibly. 'Remember: you will eventually come back to me - everyone does, in the end - and your fate will not be enviable.'
Philip K. Dick -
Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.
William Butler Yeats
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The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.
Euripides -
Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.
Alexander Chee -
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
John Dryden -
I think that my fate could be very different if there were no family and children.
Ornella Muti -
Fate laughs at probabilities.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.
Sigmund Freud -
But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
Sallust -
Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.
Aubrey Menen -
We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.
Joanne Rowling -
It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.
Bill Roorbach -
The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess.
Emanuel Lasker
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Everyone has their own career, their own fate, and everyone writes their own story.
Alexandre Lacazette -
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 to go.
Theodore Roethke -
Don’t believe in the fate society chose for you. Instead, carve out a new fate for yourself.
Bill Courtney -
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton