Quotes about Fate

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.

There, but for the grace of God, go I.

If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was.

"And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."

For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.

Well, honey, everybody has to die sometime.

All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born.

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.

There are good men everywhere, at all times. Most men are. Some are just unlucky, because most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be. And I've known some that even the circumstances couldn't stop. ~from 'Delta Autumn

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Which explains a lot, having likewise noticed in my time that the goddess in charge of virtue seems to be the same one in charge of luck, if not of folly also.