Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.

My whole life has been decided by fate.

There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

Life has a way of working out the way it's meant to.

No man can be stronger than his destiny.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Fate is written in the face.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

Destiny doesn't make mistakes.

Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.

Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

The fault is in our stars, dear Brutus: not the glass screen through which we see them.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny!

“It is Fate that I am here,” persisted George. “But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”

Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.

All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.