Horace Quotes

You know what I think? Fate! That's what it is fate! There's a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name,but I forgot what it is. Creeps up behind him, and puts him in the basket when he ain't expecting it.

Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

Sooner or later a black car came for everyone.

No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.

Greater dooms win greater destinies.

A man destined to hang can never drown

In the end, the Wheel crushes us all.

The sole equality on earth is death.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

With 'Hereditary', I wanted to make a film about what bothers me about life.

Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.