Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds. — Lisa Kleypas
Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected. — Plutarch
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. — Plutarch
Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials. — Howard Thurman
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. — Seneca
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. — Seneca The Elder
Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate. — Christopher Marlowe
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. — William Mcfee
The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late — H. Rider Haggard
Fate In The Iliad Image Quotes
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Fate And Destiny Quotes
I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it. — Marcus Garvey
Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else. — Joe Budden
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny. — William McKinley
Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate. — Bill Paxton
On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me. — Robert Breault
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Choose your fate by your attitude.
There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen. — Ann Rule
There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. — Diana Trilling
Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. — Homer
Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter. — Homer
Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. — Homer
There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad. — Homer
Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms. — Homer
Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes! — Homer
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. — Herodotus
Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on — Homer
His descent was like nightfall. — Homer
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. — Homer
Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall — Homer
...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance. — Homer
And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the day that we are born. — Stefan Zweig
Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth. — Homer
A man's life breath cannot come back again--
no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
once it slips through a man's clenched teeth. — Homer
The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. — Brad Pitt
Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade. — Homer
No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny. — Homer
There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth. — Homer
But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me. — Homer
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born. — Homer
Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man. — Homer
…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives. — Homer
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward! — Homer
Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears. — Homer
Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away. — Homer
No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born. — Homer
My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius — Homer
Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable — Homer
Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness? — Homer
All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them. — Homer
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