Quotes about Fate

Criminal Minds, Miasma: "All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born."

Wilder offers this as his explanation of why good people have to suffer in this life. God has a pattern into which all of our lives fit. His pattern requires that some lives be twisted, knotted, or cut short, while others extend to impressive lengths, not because one thread is more deserving than another, but simply because the pattern requires it.

That we got what we deserved in life.

Actions are the seeds of fate. Deeds grow into destiny.

Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice!

I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions—that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.

I am not going to Egypt,' said the bird. 'I am going to the House of Death.' He kissed the prince and fell down dead at his feet.

Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

There, but for the grace of God, go I.

If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was.

"And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."

For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.