"Ah, cruel fate, how swiftly joy and sorrow alternate!"
- Raimbaut de Vaqueyras
"All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey."
- John Dryden
"Cold comradeship do stars provide.They light the closer, inner sideOf night's vast weight, which, chill and clear,Pulls on us like some puppeteer.Its unseen threads to heads and heartsAttached, it act..."
- McKenzie Bodkin
"Everything in Tom's cathedral looked as if it was meant to be. Perhaps her life was like that, everything foreordained in a grand design, and she was like a foolish builder who wanted a waterfall in t..."
- Ken Follett
"He looked left and she turned right ment to be together but not that night..."
- Train
"Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king."
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
"As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by acci..."
- Douglas Coupland
"Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws."
- Holly Robinson
"I have chosen a life that depends on one’s awareness that every breath may be his last, every step may bring his downfall, and every word may stir betrayal. In truth, I must live in conscious ignoranc..."
- Nicole Sager
"What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate."
- C.G. Jung