Quotes about fate

I don’t have much truck with romantic notions of human destiny, or Gods, or Good Guys winning out in the end. I have seen destiny in action, and I can tell you, it stinks.

“Isn’t there anything you can do about the predator?” Carmody asked.

“Nothing. Nor would I if I could. Predation is a necessary circumstance. Even the Gods are eventually eaten by Fate. You will not be an exception to the universal rule.”

The outline of our lives, like the candles flame, is continuously coaxed in new directions by a variety of random events that, along with our responses to them, determine our fate.

Push your luck, gorgeous, and eventually luck pushes back.

It was fate, and being angry at fate was as futile as being angry at the weather.

Hoddan angrily suspected fate and chance of plain conspiracy against him.

But no one can be immune to the laws of chance.

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

Men at some time are masters of their fates:

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,

But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Gambling was the place where statistics and profound human consequences met most nakedly, after all, and cards, even more than dice or the numbers on a roulette wheel, seemed able to define and perhaps even dictate a player’s...luck.

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings.