Quotes about Fate
Only himself manacles man: thought and action are the gaolers of Fate—they imprison, being base; they are also the angels of Freedom—they liberate, being noble.
- James Allen
Las circunstancias son el medio por el que el alma recibe lo que le corresponde.
- James Allen
There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.
- Margaret Atwood
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God
- Jonathan Edwards
A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.
- Edith Wharton
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
- William Faulkner
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
- George Eliot
Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.
- Charles Dickens
Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
- Herman Melville
I have never asked God to let me die young, It is true I have always thought I should do so, but it is a favour I have not tried to obtain.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Man proposes, but God disposes.
- Thomas a Kempis