Quotes about destiny
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Source: Kitchen

“At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 18.

Lie, World

“The Valkyrie did not believe in coincidence, only fate. And sometimes fate didn't even bother being subtle.”

Kresley Cole book A Hunger Like No Other

Source: A Hunger Like No Other

“What could a mortal say to the merciless Fate?
I forced myself to my feet. was the traditional end to a prayer. By the will of Fate.
"" I whispered defiantly.
Bywill.”

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Wyvernhail

Source: Wyvernhail

“Nothing is ever truly set by fate. In one blink, everything changes. Even though it should be a clear, sunny day, the softest whisper into the wind can become a hurricane that destroys everything it touches. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

Change

“I tried very hard. But I can't help it. The Fates are cruel. They sent you to me, my brave one, knowing that you would break my heart.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Help, Heart

“Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.”

Brian Jacques (1939–2011) British fiction writer known for Redwall animal fantasy novels

Source: The Ribbajack: and Other Haunting Tales

“The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Heart

“How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.”

Thomas Harris (1940) American author and screenwriter

Home

“I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

Love, Faith, Thinking

“As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Time Keeper

Children

“… though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.”

Edith Wharton Summer

Source: Summer

Feeling

“Fate has a strange way of making plans.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Way

“Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.”

Deanna Raybourn (1968) American writer

Source: Silent in the Grave

“Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Family

“It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

Love

“She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.”

Elizabeth Bowen book The Death of the Heart

Source: The Death of the Heart

Girl

“Love cannot save you from your own fate.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Love

“No one should know his entire fate. It's too dangerous and too depressing. Just keep going, do your best, and hope it's good enough. That's all any of us can do.”

Rick Riordan book Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes

Hope

“Wyrd bið ful āræd. Fate is inexorable.”

Bernard Cornwell book Warriors of the Storm

Variant: Fate is inexorable.
Source: Warriors of the Storm

“When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

“Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

History

“[Percy] kept hoping things would get better for Annabeth and him, but their lives just got more dangerous, as if the Three Fates were up there spinning their futures with barbed wire instead of thread just to see how much two demigods could tolerate.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Hope, Future

“My relationship with Jackson had felt fated. Whatever I had with Aric felt . . . endless.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Endless Knight

“My fate is my own; my heart remains free
Not magic but wisdum reveals destiny.”

James Moloney book The Book of Lies

Source: The Book of Lies

Heart

“I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

Men, People

“There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.”

Ann Rule (1931–2015) True crime writer

Way, Change

“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,
Can circumvent or hinder or control
The firm resolve of a determined soul.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet

"Will," included in Maurine: And Other Poems, p. 145 (1888). Often quoted by Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji.
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
Context: There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,
Can circumvent or hinder or control
The firm resolve of a determined soul.
Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great;
All things give way before it soon or late.
What obstacle can stay the mighty force
Of the sea seeking river in its course,
Or cause the ascending orb of day to wait?

Soul, Chance, Leadership

“theres no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.
nobody ever finds
the one.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Variant: there's no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

Chance

“If fate is a millstone, we are the grist. There is nothing we can do. So I wish for strength. If I cannot protect them from the wheel, then give me a strong blade, and enough strength, to shatter fate”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Strong

“Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.”

Zadie Smith (1975) British writer

“It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Love

“Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.”

Jasper Fforde book The Last Dragonslayer

Source: The Last Dragonslayer

“Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Life, Women, For women

“He is my fate. He's my soul mate. He pervades my whole existence. So, of course, I often ignore him.”

Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer

Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

Soul

“The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert.
Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last.
Even the sun goes down.”

Guy Gavriel Kay book The Lions of Al-Rassan

Source: The Lions of Al-Rassan

Men, Sun

“You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Variant: You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in, risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. And if you can't play, you can't win.
Source: Paradise

Life, Game

“Fate is the magnetic pull of our souls toward the people, places, and things we belong with.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

People, Soul

“Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story.”

Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

People, Beauty, Way

“I know that if I ever have the audacity to blame fate or God for holding a gun to my temple, I also have the wherewithal to remind myself that if I end up with a hole in my head, I was the one who pulled the trigger.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

God

“I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!”

Lois McMaster Bujold Captain Vorpatril's Alliance

Source: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance

Death

“Yet experience has taught me that fate is sometimes cruel and that even a boatload of hope is sometimes not enough.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

Hope

“am not talking about fate. I don’t believe in destiny or soul mates or the supernatural. I just mean we understood each other. All the way.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Way, Soul

“Fate Marches on, demanding we find our destinies”

Christina Dodd (1957) American writer

“I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately, when the fate of the world is in question, you use whatever tools are available.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

World, Fear, Question

“I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

Life, Faith, Thinking, Decision

“Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Cheating

“You know what I think? Fate! That's what it is fate! There's a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name, but I forgot what it is. Creeps up behind him, and puts him in the basket when he ain't expecting it.”

Georgette Heyer book Friday's Child

Source: Friday's Child

Thinking

“There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can…. Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.”

David Guterson book Snow Falling on Cedars

Source: Snow Falling on Cedars

Universe

“If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Source: The Joys of Love

Happiness

“We create our fate every day… most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Behavior, Suffering

“I want to seize fate by the throat.”

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer

Letter to F.G. Wegeler, 16 November, 1801.

“There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying.
Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

Life, Hope

“All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.”

Arthur C. Clarke book 2010: Odyssey Two

Source: 2010: Odyssey Two

Nature, Universe

“I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest

Source: Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest

Feeling

“Fate has a way of getting what she wants, no matter how we try to avoid it.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Pleasure of a Dark Prince

Way

“In time you shall see Fate approach you
In the shape of your own image in the mirror;
Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth,
And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest,
And you shall know that guest,
And read the authentic message of his eyes.”

Edgar Lee Masters book Spoon River Anthology

Lyman King
Source: Spoon River Anthology

Time, Reading

“We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

“Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: This is Where I Leave You

Time

“So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Lost World

Source: The Lost World

“To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

World, Indifference

“To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.”

Curtis Sittenfeld (1975) Novelist, short story writer

Source: American Wife

Personality, Falseness

“Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Hate, Learning, Time

“… there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

People

“Fate does not seek our consent.”

Terry Goodkind Blood of the Fold

Source: Blood of the Fold

“There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

Future, Night

“The basic fact is that no, this isnt ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.
-Heidi”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

History

“But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.”

Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita

Source: The Master and Margarita

Love

“Tell her this
And more,—
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man.
The bustling fates
Heap his hands with corpses
Until he stands like a child
With surplus of toys.”

Stephen Crane (1871–1900) American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist

Source: Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

Sea

“Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.”

Trevanian book Shibumi

Source: Shibumi

“But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death.”

Bernard Cornwell book The Winter King

Source: The Winter King

Life, Death, God, Justice

“Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits. I hate to say it, but they're like drug dealers.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Hate, Guy

“… it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

World, Feeling

“Fate… may… be… thwarted.”

Gail Carson Levine (1947) American writer

Source: Ever

“You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

Goldie Hawn (1945) American actress, film director, and producer.

“All romantics meet the same fate some day.
Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.”

Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician

“Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing-glove.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Very Good, Jeeves (1930)
Source: Very Good, Jeeves!

Box

“The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. A fine example was the Prodigal Son—when he started back home.”

O. Henry book The Four Million

"The Green Door" http://books.google.com/books?id=dKk_AAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+true+adventurer+goes+forth+aimless+and+uncalculating+to+meet+and+greet+unknown+fate+A+fine+example+was+the+Prodigal+Son+when+he+started+back+home%22&pg=PA151#v=onepage <br class="br">The Four Million (1906)

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