We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
~ Ugo Betti, Struggle till Dawn, 1949

There is no fate but your own fate.
~ Leslie Grimutter

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
~ Lemony Snicket

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
~ Albert Einstein

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
~ Lucan

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
~ Plutarch