{"id":4828,"date":"2017-01-26T08:54:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T15:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=4828"},"modified":"2017-04-27T07:47:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T14:47:40","slug":"7-literary-quotes-about-destiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/7-literary-quotes-about-destiny\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Literary Quotes about Destiny"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"QuotesHistory is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0A Feast for Crows<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0George R. R. Martin<\/a><\/p>\n

Can we outrun the heavens?<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Henry VI, Part Two<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0William Shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\n

Were we no better than chessmen, moved by an unseen power, vessels the potter fashions at his fancy, for honour or for shame?<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Oscar Wilde<\/a><\/p>\n

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Magnificent Ambersons<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Booth Tarkington<\/a><\/p>\n

But often the great cat Fate lets us go only to clutch us again in a fiercer grip.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Curse of Eve<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a><\/p>\n

“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.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Moby Dick<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Herman Melville<\/a><\/p>\n

“Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead,” said Scrooge. “But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0A Christmas Carol<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n

See More Destiny Quotes from Literature<\/a><\/h3>\n

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