Fate Quotes - Page 24

• But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.

  Sarah Dessen

  Important, Another Chance, Made

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.245, Penguin

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• My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wind, Sound, Next

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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• He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!

  Ann Patchett

  Heart, Destiny, Looks

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• After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate.

  J.R. Ward

  Tragedy, Whim, Subjects

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.92, Penguin

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• The basic fact is that no, this isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push,so to speak.

  Sarah Dessen

  Giving, Facts, Sometimes

  "Along for the Ride". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2009.

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• Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

  Trevanian

  Ironic, Speech, Irony

  Trevanian (2005). “Shibumi: A Novel”, p.106, Broadway Books

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• Do you believe in fate?" "I guess, but . . . its more about creatng the life you want so you can make that fate a reality. You know?

  Susane Colasanti

  Believe, Reality, Want

  Susane Colasanti (2008). “When It Happens”, p.108, Penguin

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• 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

  Strong, Giving, Wish

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• In so many millennia, the humans never did figurs love out. How much is physical, how much in the mind? How much accident and how much fate? Why did perfect matches crumble and impossible couples thrive? I dont know the answer better than they did. Love simply is where it is.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Couple, Perfect, Mind

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.

  Lisa See

  Done, Wonder, Knows

  Lisa See (2013). “Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.413, Random House

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• Hey Nana, If Cinderella's glass slipper fits so perfectly, I wonder why it fell off along the way? I can't help but think that it was on purpose, to attract the prince's affections. No matter what I do, I'll still have the fate of a girl who just keeps getting hurt, wondering if she can be happy in this pointless, one man show?

  Ai Yazawa

  Girl, Hurt, Men

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• He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world...all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger and the thirst. Everything he had never thought about or known was there before him, and magnified into one person who by chance, or fate--call it what you will--happened to be me.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Sadness, Sleep, World

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• Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Men, Unjust, May

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.263, Courier Corporation

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• Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

  Diane Setterfield

  Revenge, Firsts, Negotiation

  Diane Setterfield (2006). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

  Thomas Mann

  Achievement, Triumph, Faces

  Thomas Mann (1961). “Stories of a lifetime”

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• An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.

  William Butler Yeats

  Country, Lonely, Cheer

  "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" l. 1 (1919)

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• Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right – no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse.

  J.R. Ward

  Sleep, Fog, Two

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.8, Penguin

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• Will picked a single blossom from a gorse bush beside him; it shone bright yellow on his grubby hand. "People are very complicated," he said sadly. "So they are," John Rowlands said. His voice deepened a little, louder and clearer than it had been. "But when the battles between you and your adversaries are done, Will Stanton, in the end the fate of all the world will depend on just those people, and on how many of them are good or bad, stupid or wise. And indeed it is all so complicated that I would not dare foretell what they will do with their world. Our world.

  Susan Cooper

  Wise, Stupid, Our World

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• We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

  Jane Austen

  Merit, Helping, Forget You

  Jane Austen (2015). “Persuasion”, p.273, Jane Austen

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• And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house, is sold and lost, and the books I gathered there lost, or sold- but more books bought, and in another place, board by board and stone by stone, like a house, a true life built, and all because I was steadfast about one or two things: loving foxes, and poems, the blank piece of paper, and my own energy- and mostly the shimmering shoulders of the world that shrug carelessly over the fate of any individual that they may, the better, keep the Niles and Amazons flowing.

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Book, Two

  Mary Oliver (2016). “Upstream: Selected Essays”, p.17, Penguin

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

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Giving, Sock, Ifs

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Joys of Love”, p.89, Macmillan

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• What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

  Carl Jung

  Conscious, Memories Dreams Reflections

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• It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

  Ian Mcewan

  Powerful, Character, Tuning

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• Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

  George Santayana

  Summer, Nature, Garden

  George Santayana (1967). “Animal Faith and Spiritual Life”, Irvington Pub

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• Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Happiness, Believe, Book

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Burned”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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