Quotes about Fate

Things don't always go the way we want. I've come to realize that some things just aren't meant to be.

If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine omnipotence might by the force of its own love be swayed down to the world? ...how it might, because it could know its own creatures only by compassion, put on mortal flesh, become a man, and walk among us, assume our nature and our fate, suffer our faults and our death?

I was blaspheming my luck in a way that made my breath smell of brimstone.

Criminal Minds, Miasma: "All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born."

Wilder offers this as his explanation of why good people have to suffer in this life. God has a pattern into which all of our lives fit. His pattern requires that some lives be twisted, knotted, or cut short, while others extend to impressive lengths, not because one thread is more deserving than another, but simply because the pattern requires it.

That we got what we deserved in life.

Actions are the seeds of fate. Deeds grow into destiny.

Like women, life is unpredictable and a huge risk.

Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice!

I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions—that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.

I am not going to Egypt,' said the bird. 'I am going to the House of Death.' He kissed the prince and fell down dead at his feet.

Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.