"Truly some men there be That live always in great horrour, And say it goeth by destiny To hang or wed: both hath one hour; And whether it be, I am well sure, Hanging is better of the twain; Sooner done, and shorter pain."

"Ich fühl 's das ich der Mann des Schicksals bin."

"Every man meets his Waterloo at last."

"The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors Close after us, forever."

"They only fall, that strive to move, Or lose, that care to keep."

"Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then."

"We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny."

"The future works out great men's destinies: The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever."

"All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread."

"No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny."

"Character is fate. (Destiny)."

"Art and power will go on as they have done,—will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time."

"Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart."

"We talk about destiny, about what's meant to be, when in reality it's usually a combination of failure plus time, a series of adjusted circumstances, a question of human resilience and ability to reconfigure our expectations."

"God from all eternity did by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so as thereby neither is God the author of sin; nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established. By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death. As God hath appointed the elect unto glory, so hath He, by the eternal and most free purpose of His will, foreordained all the means thereunto. Wherefore, they who are elected . . . are effectually called unto faith in Christ by His Spirit working in due season, are justified, adopted, sanctified, and kept by His power. through faith, unto salvation. Neither are any other redeemed by Christ, effectually called, justified, adopted, sanctified, and saved, but the elect only. The rest of mankind God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of His own will, whereby He extendeth or withholdeth mercy, as He pleaseth, for the glory of His Sovereign power over His creatures, to pass by; and to ordain them to dishonour and wrath for their sin, to the praise of His glorious justice. (Chap. III — Articles I, III, VI and VII)"

"Quisque suos patimur manes."

"And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land."

"And all the bustle of departure—sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating—just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny."

"But He, that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail!"

"What is done cannot be now amended."

"They that stand high have many blasts to shake them; And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces."

"A man whom both the waters and the wind, In that vast tennis-court, hath made the ball For them to play upon."

"If he had been as you and you as he, You would have slipt like him."

"Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before."

"What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?"

"For it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell."

"Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life?"

"Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies, Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light."

"We shall be winnow'd with so rough a wind That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff, And good from bad find no partition."

"Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew and dog will have his day."

"Imperious Cæsar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw!"

"A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm."

"What a falling-off was there!"

"I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out for an ultimate perfection which is to be had. At the moment, it is a dream. But as of the moment we clasp hands with our neighbor, we build the first span to bridge the gap between the young and the old. At this hour, it’s a wish. But we have it within our power to make it a reality. If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive."

"The problem with Destiny, of course, is that she is often not careful where she puts her finger."

"when a girl is wedded, her fate is fixedwhen a child is born, his stars are fixedlife is fixed, love is fixed, death is fixed"

"When we heard what they [Simmias and Cebes] said we were all depressed, as we told each other afterwards. We had been quite convinced by the previous argument [Socrates' argument], and they seemed to confuse us again, and to drive us to doubt not only what had already been said but also what was going to be said, lest we be worthless as critics or the subject itself [the fate of the soul] admitted of no certainty."

"The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire."

"A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself."

"Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace."

"When one has made a mistake, one says. "Another time I shall know what to do," when one should say is: "I already know what I shall really do another time.""

"Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny."

"We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren. And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified."

"Destiny has a funny way When it comes and takes all your cares away I can't think of a single thing Other than what a beautiful state I'm in"

"We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse."

"We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us."

"Destiny is the bridge you build to the one you love."

"We can't run from who we are. Our destiny chooses us."

"Living in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the unintentional are those who do not wish to guide their own destinies."

"'Tis strange how the heart can create Or colour from itself its fate; We make ourselves our own distress, We are ourselves our happiness."