Quotes about Fate
Life is a lottery that we've already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets.
— Louise Hay
Hindley, with apparently the stronger head, has shown himself sadly the worse and weaker man ... One hoped, the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.
— Emily Bronte
He quite deserted! we separated! she exclaimed, with an accent of indignation. Who is to separate us, pray? They'll meet the fate of Milo! Not as long as I live, Ellen — for no mortal creature. Every Linton on the face of the earth might melt into nothing, before I could consent to forsake Heathcliff! Oh, that's not what I intend — that's not what I mean! I shouldn't be Mrs Linton were such a price demanded! He'll be as much to me as he has been all his lifetime.
— Emily Bronte
She might have been living yet, if it had not been for him!
— Emily Bronte
Yet, these revive, and from their fate Your fate cannot be parted: Then, journey on, if not elate, Still, never broken-hearted!
— Emily Bronte
Yet, these revive, and from their fate Your fate cannot be parted: Then, journey on, if not elate, Still, never broken-hearted!
— Emily Bronte
Lucky is the man who dies at work.
— Epictetus
Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it. If short, of a short one; if long, of a long one.
— Epictetus
You cannot choose the era, nationality, family, and body into which you are born. But to act well in your given role—this is your sphere of power.
— Epictetus
Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.
— Andrew Carnegie
I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all.
— Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.
— Joseph Campbell