Claire Tomalin Quotes

I don't fear death. If it happens, it was meant to happen.

You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.

Without a doubt. I believe in fate the same way others believe in God. I do believe in fate.

I am here now, because I am supposed to be here. And I guess when it is my time to cross over there, I will be over there. I am not religious, but I am spiritual, honey. My day is coming!

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

No one can defy fate.

Life is a pre-existing condition.

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

Whatever happens, happens. It's all a part of God's plan.

No one can escape his destiny.

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

I'm a believer that things happen. Fate is what happens.

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?

I'm a very big believer in fate.

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

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

Life is in God's hand.

There was one theory put forth by a journalist recently. I have a lot of friends that have died prematurely and a lot of friends that have died of natural causes. I've lost a lot of people over the years. This journalist basically recommended to me that God keeps me around because I amuse him.

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