Quotes about Fate
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
— George Washington
For tho' from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
— Euripides
To get it right, be born with luck or else make it.
— Ruth Gordon
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
— Euripides
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whom the gods love, die young, no matter how long they live.
— Elbert Hubbard
No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.
— Jack Kerouac
I fear mostly my inability to capture all the things that come, I fear their mysterious source, I fear their fate, I fear me, in short. This is true…it's like finding a river of gold when you haven't even got a cup to save a cupful…you've but a thimble, and that thimble is your pathetic brain and labour and humanness.
— Jack Kerouac
It made me think that everything was about to arrive—the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.
— Jack Kerouac
I didn't know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. It made me think that everything was about to arrive—the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.
— Jack Kerouac
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
— John Donne