Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
Stefan Zweig

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Elizabeth Bowen

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
Citium Zeno

Fate is written in the face.
Federico Fellini

Fate keeps on happening.
Anita Loos

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
Plutarch

Fate loves the fearless.
James Russell Lowell

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Don Marquis

Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
S. J. Perelman

Fate will find a way.
Virgil

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.
Martin Goldsmith

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
Olympia Brown

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.
Pierre Laval

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
Friedrich Schiller

Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?
Horst Koehler

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
Mary Renault

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.
William Floyd

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
Isabel Allende

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
Walter Kaufmann