Peter Ackroyd Quotes

This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders.

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

I think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen.

But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

When it's your time, it is your time.

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

No one can defy fate.

I can read significance into tiny, tiny things. If I'd met someone 10 years ago and not seen them again, and then I suddenly bumped into them, I'd feel that that was 'meant,' or there's a fate, you know?

I'm a big believer in fate, and it's working out well so far.

I was meant to be a composer. I was meant to meet my wife and have our three children. There were a number of factors that led to all of that happening, which, if you mapped it out, you would say, 'God, a lot had to go right for all of those things to line up.'

Everything in my life has happened exactly that way it's supposed to, in almost a scary way.

I'm following the path that was destined for me.

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).

I believe in fate, never in chance.