Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.
A boy and a girl, fated to rule all. Two will rise, and One will fall.
Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.
Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.
The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.
Fate decides until challenged by the fated
I don't think unhappiness is fated.
I wasn't born in New York and I may never live there again, and just thinking about it makes me melancholy, but I was changed forever by it, my imagination is manacled to it, and I wear its mark the way you wear a scar. Whatever happens, whether I like it or not, New York City is fated always to remain my home.
Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
But they were fated to misunderstand each other.
How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?
Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.
They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.
And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.
I'm one of those big believers that the movie comes together in the way it's supposed to be and that movies are fated to become what they become.
Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination. . . Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions.
One possible reason that I don't believe in fate is that I wasn't fated to.
All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy - and that is as well, for one could not bear it - whose grief is that the principals never met.
