Quotes about Fate

I fear mostly my inability to capture all the things that come, I fear their mysterious source, I fear their fate, I fear me, in short. This is true…it's like finding a river of gold when you haven't even got a cup to save a cupful…you've but a thimble, and that thimble is your pathetic brain and labour and humanness.

It made me think that everything was about to arrive—the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

I didn't know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. It made me think that everything was about to arrive—the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Marriages are made in Heaven.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other