2,883 Quotes About Fate

Today’s headlines need not be tomorrow’s storyline.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Almost no one gets a chance to alter the course of human events on purpose, in the exact same way they wish for it to be altered.

..I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things, I could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before I got sick and died.. which I figured was my natural fate.

I defy my fate and thereby change it

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot readThe hunter's waking thoughts.

And wonder, dread and warhave lingered in that landwhere loss and love in turnhave held the upper hand.

But neither art nor aesthetics is alone in being doomed to this melancholy destiny of living not beyond their means, but beyond their ends.

I have a soft spot for my kind-- and look where it got me. Rules exist for a reason. But. /But/... You can't finish your story, but you can change it. /Technically/ speaking, you can. You can choose another ending, and destabilize it from the inside. If you fail to close the loop, the story might let you go. In theory.