William Shakespeare Quotes

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

I'm interested in characters who should know better, who know they should give up, move on, accept life as it is, with all its constraints - life, death, time - but don't.

You don't have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.

What happens tomorrow is going to happen tomorrow.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

If nothing else I have become an expert on fate.

We like to believe we are in control of our destinies, even though we never are and we never have been.

There are things we control - but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.

Some things you can't control.

Life sort of works out the way it works out.

And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!

Whatever will be, will be.

Whatever will happen will happen.

I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I saw what had happened to me and who I was and the way things would always be for me. Truth. There was no more wishing, or wondering. I knew who I was, and what I would always do. I believed it, as my teeth touched and my eyes were overrun.

Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

But it was equally clear to her that this was her fate, that she had called its name and it had come to her, and she could do nothing now but own it.

Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you're sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.

I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.

...life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch. Saphira, from "Eragon

You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

If anything unfolds, it's supposed to