166 Best Fate Quotes

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. – Mason Young

You can’t outrun your past. – Roy Petty

It’s just a mere coincidence that the person who picked up the Death Note is me. It could have been anyone. – Light Yagami

All of it… was to arrive at this result. – Eren Jaeger

The fate of destruction is also the joy of rebirth. – Kaji

Life is a journey where you cannot choose your fellow travelers. But you can choose the path you walk. – Shinsuke

There is no such thing as a coincidence in this world. There is only hitsuzen. – Okuru

If fate is a millstone, then we are the grist. There is nothing we can do. So I wish for strength. If I cannot protect them from the wheel, then give me a strong blade, and enough strength to shatter fate. – Ichigo Kurosaki

We are assassins. We don't have the luxury of a painless life. – Akame

I won't rely on luck. I'll create my own future with my own power! – Asta

I hate that word 'fate'. Birth, encounters, partings, success and failures, fortune and misfortunes in life. If our lives are already set in stone by fate, then why are we even born? – Makise Kurisu

People’s lives are like lines drawn by a stick on a beach. They cross each other, blend, and sometimes fade away. – Takasugi Shinsuke

There’s no such thing as a coincidence in this world. There is only the inevitable. – Sakata Gintoki

I didn't ask for this. None of us asked for this. – Togusa

You cannot change your fate. However, you can rise to meet it. – Lady Eboshi

Musubi is the old way of calling the local guardian god. This word has deep meaning. Tying threads is Musubi. Connecting people is Musubi. The flow of time is Musubi. – Hitoha Miyamizu

We are bound by the thread of time, connected by the cord of fate. – Mitsuha Miyamizu

A thread of time, a cord of fate, a red string of destiny. It all connects. – Narrator

You shall be known as Princess Kaguya, she who shines with the light of the moon. – The Mikado

We are taking you home. – The Moon People

I’m glad I met you, Hina. I’m glad I ran away to Tokyo. – Hodaka Morishima

I have been cursed with a body that kills. – Kagero

This is the will of the Gods of Light and Dark. – Shijima

You can’t change your fate. No man can. – Gemma

I was saved by a girl from the future. – Chiaki Mamiya

I finally understand now. I was meant to meet you. – Makoto Konno

Some things are meant to be left alone.

I will find you, no matter where you are! – Chiyoko Fujiwara

This is my destiny. To chase after a memory. – Chiyoko Fujiwara

The sound of that latch... it was the sound of my fate closing. – Chiyoko Fujiwara

You are my destiny. – Chiyoko Fujiwara

One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it. – Master Oogway

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. – Narrator

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken. – Narrator

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Vengeance is mine; I will repay.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. – Stubb

I think I see his impious end; but feel that I must help him to it. – Ahab

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. – Ahab

He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude. – Colonel Aureliano Buendía

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

He was a fugitive from all the plagues and catastrophes that had ever lashed mankind.

He was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness. 'Damn it,' he sighed. 'How can a person stand so much glory!'

The letter, which no one ever read, was lost in the wind.

Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments.

Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from the depths of my future.

It wasn't my fault if things had turned out this way.

So it goes.

There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces.