Quotes about Fate

Come what will, one comfort's always left — that unfailing comfort is, it's all predestinated.

Ho, ho! from all your furthest bounds, pour ye now in, ye bold billows of my whole foregone life, and top this one piled comber of my death! Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

This warp seemed necessity; and here, thought I, with my own hand I ply my own shuttle and weave my own destiny into these unalterable threads.

so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee

Only one sweeter end can readily be recalled—the delicious death of an Ohio honey-hunter, who seeking honey in the crotch of a hollow tree, found such exceeding store of it, that leaning too far over, it sucked him in, so that he died embalmed. How many, think ye, have likewise fallen into Plato's honey head, and sweetly perished there?

By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike.

Forehead to forehead I meet thee, this third time, Moby Dick!

But why say more? All men live enveloped in whale- lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

Life is governed by chance, not wisdom.

The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

I really believe things happen as they're supposed to and in the time that they're supposed to.

Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.