Quotes on Fate

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.

Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.

And over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year.

Coincidences are the scars of fate.

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.