Quotes about Fate
Willingly therefore, and wholly surrender up thyself unto that fatal concatenation, yielding up thyself unto the fates, to be disposed of at their pleasure.
- Marcus Aurelius
Love only what befalls thee and is spun for thee by fate. For what can be more befitting for thee?
- Marcus Aurelius
If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one.
- Marcus Aurelius
Did not he, then, who, if he had died at that time, would have died in all his glory, owe all the great and terrible misfortunes into which he subsequently fell to the prolongation of his life at that time?
- Cicero
It was true, I took too much for granted; I trusted fate, back then.
- Margaret Atwood
That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies.
- Margaret Atwood
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
But such messages can be dangerous. Think twice before you wish, and especially before you wish to make yourself into the hand of fate. (Think twice,said Reenie. Laura said,Why only twice? )
- Margaret Atwood
We must not forget that the issues of Eternity are settled in Time.
- AW Pink
Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.
- Marcus Aurelius
God gives each his due at the time allotted.
- Euripides
That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.
- Samuel Beckett