Quotes about Fate

Forehead to forehead I meet thee, this third time, Moby Dick!

But why say more? All men live enveloped in whale- lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

Life is governed by chance, not wisdom.

The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

I really believe things happen as they're supposed to and in the time that they're supposed to.

Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.

But you don't choose the time. The time chooses you. Either you seize what may turn out to be the only chance you have, or you decide you're willing to live with the knowledge that the chance has passed you by.

Nathan was something that happened to us, as devastating in its way as the burning roof that fell on the family Mwanza; with our fate scarred by hell and brimstone we still had to track our course. And it happened finally by the grace of hell and brimstone that I had to keep moving. I moved, and he stood still.

I walked through the valley of my fate, is all, and learned to love what I could lose.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Oh, it's a fine and useless enterprise, trying to fix destiny. That trail leads straight back to the time before we ever lived, and into that deep well it's easy to cast curses like stones on our ancestors. But that's nothing more than cursing ourselves and all that made us. Had I not married a preacher named Nathan Price, my particular children would never have seen the light of this world. I walked through the valley of my fate, is all, and learned to love what I could lose

Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.