Fate Quotes

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
- Douglas Coupland

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
- Alexander Pope

Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today.
- Sydney Smith

Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.
- W. H. Auden

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
- Thomas Mann

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
- Ugo Betti

Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.
- Horace

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