Quotes about fate

So long as it fated, fate didn’t care what it fated.

“Destiny’s bunk,” said the book. “That’s why this lot aren’t the Propheseers anymore.”

“From here on in,” said Mortar, “we’re the Order of Suggesters.”

For every action, there’s an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers—and one comes true.

“Destiny,” said John. “The ghastliest word a man can speak.”

Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.

Maybe it's fate that Hound ate the map. Maybe we'll discover something wonderful while we're lost.

“How then?” Taran asked. “Could The Book of Three deceive you?”

“No, it could not.” Dallben said. “The book is thus called because it tells all three parts of our lives: the past, the present, and the future. But it could as well be called a book of ‘if.’ If you had failed at your tasks; if you had followed an evil path; if you had been slain; if you had not chosen as you did — a thousand ‘ifs,’ my boy, and many times a thousand. The Book of Three can say no more than ‘if’ until at the end, of all things that might have been, one alone becomes what really is. For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.”

The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.

If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

All sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, I'm sorry to disappoint you.