Quotes about Fate

In one word, not to dwell longer on this, give heed, and you will at once perceive that ignorance of Providence is the greatest of all miseries, and the knowledge of it the highest happiness.

God did not look for a cause outside himself, but predestined us because it was his will to do it.

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men.

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

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.

Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

O how feeble is man's power, That if good fortune fall, Cannot add another hour, Nor a lost hour recall! But come bad chance, And we join to'it our strength, And we teach it art and length, Itself o'er us to'advance.

Send not to know For whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

I sing the progress of a deathless soul, Whom Fate, which God made, but doth not control, Placed in most shapes; all times before the law Yoked us, and when, and since, in this I sing. And the great world to his aged evening, From infant morn, through manly noon I draw.

Good luck - it's always ready to use in case.

Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.