Quotes about Fate
Love thine enemies because they are the instruments of your destiny.
— Joseph Campbell
The encounter and separation, for all its wildness, is typical of the sufferings of love. For when a heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces, however, will have been set in motion beyond the reckoning of the senses. Sequences of events from the corners of the world will draw gradually together, and miracles of coincidence bring the inevitable to pass.
— Joseph Campbell
Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt: "The Fates lead him who will; him who won't, they drag.
— Joseph Campbell
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
— Joseph Campbell
If you are going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.
— Joseph Campbell
It is by means of our own victories, if we are not regenerated, that the work of Nemesis is wrought: doom breaks from the shell of our very virtue.
— Joseph Campbell
Nothing in all the vast universe can come to pass otherwise than God has eternally purposed. Here is a foundation of faith. Here is a resting place for the intellect. Here is an anchor for the soul, both sure and steadfast. It is not blind fate, unbridled evil, man or Devil, but the Lord Almighty who is ruling the world, ruling it according to His own good pleasure and for His own eternal glory.
— AW Pink
For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.
— Danny Boyle
But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
— Euripides
I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
— Lady Gaga
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs, The Gods are to each other not unknown. Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson