Damon Lindelof Quotes

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.

When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way.

I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

Events are not a matter of chance.

Fate will find a way.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Whatever happens, however fast it's supposed to happen, it'll happen.

I believe in destiny...what's going to be is going to be. If I'm going to win, I'm going to win...I don't give a damn what the other guy shoots. I'm going to win if it's my turn.

Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

Fate does not play jokes.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

What's meant to be will always find a way.

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.

I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

Anything that can happen, will happen.

As certain as death and taxes.