Fate Quotes - Page 27

• 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

  Different, Path, Free Will

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.149, Bantam

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• I fear it, for her sake. It would mean that she too is a wanderer now, and that is a fate for human beings, not for unicorns. But I hope, of course I hope.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Mean, Sake, Unicorn

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Hope, Wall, Fall

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Everyman's Poetry”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• ... I'm the fortieth-ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what! What if someday she lets me kiss each one of her freckles again? She has like a million. But every one of them means something to me. Isn't this how people used to fall in love? I know we're living in Rubenstein's America, like you keep saying. But doesn't that just make us even more responsible for each other's fates? I mean, what if Eunice and I just said no to all this. To this bar. To this FACing. The two of us. What if we just went home and read books to each other?

  Gary Shteyngart

  Falling In Love, Book, Home

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• Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fighting, Siddhartha, Suffering

  Hermann Hesse (2005). “Siddhartha: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.103, Prestwick House Inc

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• Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Games, Play

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.16, Random House

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• But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.

  David Clement-Davies

  Animal, Men, Hands

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• He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures; the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god.

  Ian Mcewan

  Law, Sky, Chance

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Saturday”, p.128, Random House

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• It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

  Gregory David Roberts

  Wall, Heart, Long

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We know she’s a girl. We can never emphasize this enough, because this is the fate of colored girls globally right now: the denial of their girlhood, the denial of their childhood, and the constant state of risk and danger they are living in.

  Bell Hooks

  Girl, Thinking, Years

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• We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Moving, Fighting, Winning

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). “The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Vintage

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• Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain. All of my regret, will wash away somehow. But i can not forget, the way i feel right now.

  Rob Thomas

  Regret, Fall, Twists

  Song: Little Wonders

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• Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Desire, Puppets, Scar

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.420, Penguin

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• Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.

  Homer

  Grief, Men, Brave

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• alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wall, Men, Cities

  Charles Bukowski, “Alone With Everybody”

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• It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Path, Recognition, Impatient

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Secrets of a Summer Night”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• I walked towards my fate with my destiny standing solidly by my side

  Stephenie Meyer

  Destiny, Sides, Standing

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• Does fate ever play by the rules?

  Jodi Picoult

  Play, Doe

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• The thing about fate is, are you the master of your fate, or are the stars?

  Kami Garcia

  Stars, Masters

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• 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

  Thinking, Decision, Twists

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.346, Macmillan

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• Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

  Nora Roberts

  Mean, Blood, Laughing

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• 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

  Thinking, Names, Expecting

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• Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.

  Haruki Murakami

  Storm, Adjusting, Sometimes

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami. Chapter One, September 12, 2002.

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• Fate, I think, is a thief.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Thinking, Thieves

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love; the passionate search for truth other than our own. With longing; the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Eye, Heart, Night

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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