Leave it to fate to tease you with comfort and complacency before turning your world upside down.

A sharp and familiar pang pierced his heart, rattled around his ribs, and then settled in his stomach like a rotting, dead weight. He took a swig of his Jack on the rocks, the burn...

What is the point of our lives? There isn’t any. I can’t seem to decide how much horror and how much joy lies within that simple truth, but I know it is both of those...

Despite all the other factors that had contributed to my fate, in the end it was my decision that destroyed my life. And all the hurt I was enduring now was my doing. The blame...

fate” caused you to make great decisions that lead you to where you are now.

Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads....

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

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.

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man...

It was strange even after suffering from fate, a person in love would choose the same fate over his life.

Fate is a future you didn’t try hard enough ti change. If you want things to go your way, being smart and being strong are helpful, but you still have to work your ass off.

And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a...

​”One could have mistakenly assumed that each train could choose its own destination. But there was no choice. The Nazi operator sat in the station booth, his hands on levers and switches, forcing each train...

God is the Creator of all dreams.

She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again. Suddenly...

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.

…maybe that’s why this all went wrong. Like fate saying ‘hey, you rush me so I’ll fuck up everything for you guys.

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...

That is life, isn’t it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if’s that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the...

It was that evening, when my mother abdicated her authority, that marked the beginning, along with the slow death of my grandmother, of the decline of my will and of my health. Everything had been...

Everything in Tom’s cathedral looked as if it was meant to be. Perhaps her life was like that, everything foreordained in a grand design, and she was like a foolish builder who wanted a waterfall...

It is true. Indeed, that is why I dared not speak. I have yearned to be again at the side of my beloved Arianllyn, and my thoughts are with her now. But had I chosen...

I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years — across oceans and lifetimes. I know that it won’t break...

You won’t understand this now, Saira. Later, perhaps. When you are older. When you learn that life is not only about the choices you make. That some of them will be made for you.

sometimes what you have planned, is nothing like the plan your soul invited you, to this earth for.

‎Destiny finds those who listen, and fate finds the rest.

You know, sometimes even when two people love each other the universe still conspires against them, forces them apart.

To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.

Fate is a funny thing, isn’t it?

Our destiny is aligned with our heart’s innermost longing, a longing embedded within our soul before birth. This longing is a unique pattern or configuration reminiscent of the constellations in the night sky. When we...

Life is stranger than any of us expected,There is a somber, imponderable fate.Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty.

The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped–not with wealth or by war, not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship.

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.

No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny.

Fortune, that arrant whore,Ne’er turns the key to th’poor.

You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.

Consider One Thing Always, We Are Just Selected”.

But Fate does iron wedges drive,And always crowds itself betwixt.

I asked Hillary why she had chosen Yale Law School over Harvard. She laughed and said, “Harvard didn’t want me.” I said I was sorry that Harvard turned her down. She replied, “No, I received...

My dreams may be nonsense too,but I do not want to run the risk of not following them

Fate’s arrow, when expected, travels slow.

Wanaume hupenda nyama kwenye mifupa.

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive...

Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.

You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey

Against FateHey, Fate! When you fail a man, you spendall your time digging a well to trap him.Then you untie the well’s wheel rope so that it can roll.And you keep the poor mortal struggling...

It’s a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

He deserved a much better fate.

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.