History Quotes / ScrewDestiny

->''"Fate is what you call it when you don't know the name of the person screwing you over!"''
-->-- '''Lois''', ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle''

-->-- '''LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}''' in his ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' LetsPlay

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

->Destiny... destiny... destiny... destiny...SHUT THE HELL UP! How 'bout you save your high and mighty crap for after I've been haunted to death, skullface? Sacrifice? Offering? Destiny? Quit spoutin' out a bunch of cryptic explanations! The point is, this is war! It ain't different from any other war! The last one standing wins! Listen here! I'm beatin' all a' you back down to Hell! Tell those ugly pale-faced bastards for me! If I get hit, I will hit back! Tell 'em leavin' me half-eaten is gonna be the end of you! I'll hunt and kill all those wretched monsters... and all of you... DOWN TO THE LAST ONE! THIS IS... ''MY DECLARATION OF WAR!''

->[[ShutUpHannibal THAT DOES IT!! Who gave you the right to tell her what she can or can't be?!]] Go on, Hinata! Show this guy he's wrong!

->May those that accept their fate be granted happiness; may those who defy it be granted glory.

->The future is not to be seen... the future is to be made!

->''He'll take that blank last page''\\
''And smash his fist through it!''
-->-- The second OP of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders''

->''Let me show you how to break out now.''\\
''Crush the stones of fate into atoms.''\\
''In a way you've never seen before.''
-->-- The first OP of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind''

->''Fate is just another worthless sign.''\\
''I will give my life as godless soul''\\
''Gangstar.''
-->-- The second OP of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind''

->I won't let that happen...! Even if that's what fate has decided! I WILL BEND THE FUTURE!

->'''Takuma:''' Both the past and the future can eat shit! Our future…the only future that matters…!\\

'''Travis:''' (''shoots Knykos several times in the back'') Know that word. Seventh grade. Last day of school, ever. Teacher said I'd never amount to nothing, ever. Was my destiny. Always thought: destiny can go @#$% itself.

->Nothing's final! Not fate, not prophecies, not what's in history books. I've spent two hundred years chasing prophecy and accepting destiny. Believing nothing we do really matters. [[TheAntiNihilist But if nothing we do matters, all that matters is what we do]]. I'm going to find a way to save the world. Then ''and'' now.

->'''Rei:''' (growling) You will not harm them, Adam-spawn! This world is mine! I will protect my children! They will live!\\

'''Rei:''' (snarling) Why not? You and I cannot coexist, Child of the White Moon! For all the other lies SEELE has told, they told the truth about that! I know what compels you! You cannot resist the Call to seek your origin! You will inevitably try to unite with Adam and fulfill the drive you cannot deny! And I will not allow you to overwrite all life on this world!\\

->''Fate, you say? You aren't the only one to use that word to put me down. All my life... I was told that things are the way they are because of fate. My apparent weakness. How I wouldn't amount to anything. How my clan would forever remain divided. And guess what? I proved them wrong. I proved all of them wrong! And I shall prove you wrong too!''

[[folder:Film - Animated]]
->Guns kill, [[IAmNotAGun and you don't have to be a gun]]. You are what you choose to be. '''You''' choose. ''Choose''.

->''Set your sights upon the heights''
->''Don't be a mediocrity''
->''Don't just wait and trust to fate''
->''And say, "That's how it's meant to be"''

->''It's up to you, how far you go''
->''If you don't try, you'll never know''
->''And so, my lad, as I've explained,''
->''"Nothing ventured, nothing gained"''

[[folder:Film - Live-Action]]

-->--'''John Myers''', ''Film/Hellboy2004''

->Nothing is written.

->Truly, for some men nothing is written unless ''they'' write it.

->Life's like a movie, write your own ending.

->'''Granny Weatherwax''': Destiny ''is'' important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.\\
'''Nanny Ogg''': Bugger destiny.

->What else had the old monk said? [[YouCantFightFate History finds a way]]? Well, it was going to have to come up with something good, because it was up against [[{{Determinator}} Sam Vimes]] now.

->What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

->Three things shall you kiss before I let you spook me for good. My boots, my balls and my ass.

->''It doesn’t matter how flawless the scheme was, how impregnable the fortress or powerful the magical weapon, [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin it always ends with a band of adolescents shouting utter platitudes as they tear it all down]]. The game is rigged so that we lose, every single time. Half the world, turned into a prop for the glory of the other half. Ah. How much worse it must be, coming from a culture that still teaches you you can win. We don’t even have that, [[VillainProtagonist Catherine]]. The hope of the happy ending. We get to cackle on the way down the cliff, or maybe [[DyingCurse curse our killer with our last breath]]. You’ve read the stories, and stories are the lifeblood of Names. None of it is earned. It is handed to them, and this offends me. You asked me what I want. This once, just this once, [[TheBadGuyWins I want us to win]]. To spit in the eyes of the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Hashmallim]]. To trample the pride of all those glorious, righteous princes. To scatter their wizards and make their oracles liars. Just to prove that it can be done. So that five hundred years from now, a band of heroes shiver in the dark of night. Because they know that no matter how powerful their sword or righteous their cause, there was once a time it wasn’t enough. That even victories ordained by the Heavens can broken by the will of men.''

->I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out.

->I do believe in destiny — but I don't think of it as some mysterious force from the stars that governs everybody from outside according to some prearranged scheme. I think of it as something that comes from inside, that's built into people. It's what happens when people act like the sort of people they are, when they do what comes most naturally. And it's not all-powerful, you can fight it, but it's tricky, because it means fighting your own nature... doing what you're least inclined to do.

->''Nothing'' is inevitable. The future is not set in stone!

->'''Richie:''' (''while they hang from a Ferris Wheel'') Hey, Eddie, if we killed ourselves, we could ''cheat'' Fate!\\
'''Eddie:''' I don't think we want to piss Fate off at the moment.

->There are laws. Laws of Time, and once upon a time there were people in charge of those laws, but they died. They all died. Do you know who that leaves? ''Me!'' It's taken me all these years to realize the Laws of Time are mine, and ''they will obey me!''

->Sometimes knowing your own future enables you to change it, especially if you're bloody-minded, contradictory and completely unpredictable.

->'''The Doctor''': History says there was an explosion here. Who am I to argue with history?\\
'''Rose''': Usually the first in line.

->Dear Celia.\\

We will never meet. I will never know you. So live your life. Live every day. And know that the future is unwritten. Make the most of that.
-->-- '''[[spoiler: Al Gough]]''', ''Series/FlashForward2009''

->'''Priestess of Fate''': Exercise caution. For you are about to make a decision that will change your fate.\\
'''Kaito''': I merely choose my own path. I couldn't care less about fate!

->So screw destiny, right in the face. I say we take the fight to them, and do it our way.

-> '''[[spoiler:Ultraman Belial]]:''' You can deny me all you want, but you're still the son of [[spoiler:Belial]]! You'll never escape my name, as long as you live!\\

->Can I say something about destiny? '''Screw destiny!''' If this evil thing comes we'll fight it, and we'll keep fighting it until we whoop it. 'Cause destiny is just another word for inevitable and nothing's inevitable as long as you stand up, look it in the eye, and say 'You're evitable!'

->'''Robin:''' ''[as she and Ted search in vain for her old locket, being drenched in rain, days before her wedding to Barney]'' Ted, this is a sign and you know it. I mean, the universe is screaming at me right now! How--how--how can [[SerialRomeo you]], of ''all'' people, tell me to ignore that?\\

-->--''Series/HowIMetYourMother''

-->--''Sky One's Adaptation of {{Literature/Hogfather}}'', 2006

->There's no reason\\

You're not my destiny\\
\\

You don't need to lie to me

->In 13 the beast is rising\\

Is always in your hands\\
\\

If you're gonna die, you're gonna die

->A planet of playthings,\\

I will choose freewill.

->It's not destiny!\\

This hasn’t all been mapped by fate\\

And we’re powered by\\
Every tear that’s dried..

->No fate but that of which we make!

-> It's not done until it's told,\\

Say my story is not done.

->We can change it. Make it right!

->Cloud, lend me your strength. Let us defy destiny...together.

->'''[[PlayerCharacter The Dragonborn]]''': [[TheChosenOne The prophecy says]] that only the Dragonborn can stop [Alduin].
->'''Paarthurnax''': ''Qostiid sahlo aak.'' Just because you can do a thing, does not always mean that you should. Do you have no better reason for acting than destiny? Are you nothing but a plaything of ''dez''... of fate?
->'''The Dragonborn''': I don't believe in destiny. But I will stop Alduin.
->'''Paarthurnax''': And so, perhaps, your destiny will be fulfilled. But who can say? ''Dez motmahus''. Even to the ''[[OurDragonsAreDifferent dov]]'', who ride the currents of time, destiny is elusive.
-->--''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''

->'''Guardians make their own fate.'''
-->--''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'', during the Vault of Glass raid. [[note]]This message is displayed during the raid when the players manage to escape from being scattered across time by Aetheon.[[/note]]

->'''[[ThePaladin Crusader]]:''' The battle approaches. What says the Scroll of Fate?
->'''Ithereal''': Doom and darkness. These heavens ruined... The angelic Host broken. Diablo is victorious.
->'''Crusader''': Ah. [[BadassBoast So the Scroll is wrong.]]
-->--''VideoGame/DiabloIII''

->Fate may command I die before the answers are discovered, but an Assassin takes orders from no one.

->But.. even if I knew for certain, I still wouldn't blindly accept my fate. I will not simply succumb to what others claim is my destiny. I fight for control over my own life. And I will win.

->'''Tidus''': {{This is my story}}. It'll go the way I want... or I'll end it here.\\
'''Yuna''': Wait. You say it's your story, but it's my story, too, you know? It would be so easy... to let my fate just carry me away... following this same path my whole life through. But I know... I can't. What I do, I do... with no regrets.

->'''Oerba Yun Fang:''' When prayers turn to promises, not even fate can stand in their way.
->'''Oerba Dia Vanille:''' We held the light of hope in our hearts, and achieved the impossible. Now we live on, to greet a new dawn.

->''Bring it on, Noel. [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII I've been fighting destiny]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 a long time, now]]. And I'm getting good at it.''

->'''Urianger''': What sayest thou, Master Matoya? We may accept this fate or defy it, but we cannot deny it.\\
'''Y'shtola''': ...deny? I'm not wont to run from my troubles. Until our friend returns, ''I'' will HoldTheLine.

->This tragedy, greater even than the Seventh Umbral Calamity, must be undone... If history must be unwritten, ''[[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong let it be unwritten]]''.

->I challenge my fate!

->Anything can change!

->Don't you put any stock in this destiny hogwash! Let the dead whine about their fate... As long as I draw breath, I choose to keep fighting! That's what life is all about!

->If the afterlife sends someone to collect you, you put that messenger in the ground.
-->--'''Lon'qu''' to [[spoiler:Inigo if Inigo is his son]], ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' (''Future Past'' DLC)

->I make my own fate!

->[[CallBack This is my story]], and you're not part of it.

->Thirty years hence, I am presented with a dilemma - let's call it a two-sided coin. If the coin falls one way, I sacrifice myself and thus restore the Pillars. But as the last surviving vampire in Nosgoth, this would mean the annihilation of our species. If the coin lands on the reverse, I refuse the sacrifice and thus doom the Pillars to an eternity of collapse. Either way, the game is rigged. But suppose you throw a coin enough times... [[TakeAThirdOption suppose one day, it lands on its]] ''[[HeadsTailsEdge edge]].''

->Destiny is a game, is it not? And now, you await my latest move.

->'''Giro''': Don't tell me you forgot your promise already. You did mean it, right?\\
'''Aile''': Giro!? But, [[InTheBlood the blood that flows in me...]]\\
'''Giro''': Is just blood. Are you going to let some man you don't even know decide your destiny for you? Destiny is not something that is given to us by others. Destiny comes from the concept of "destine," or directing something towards a given end. Be the one doing the directing. Only you can decide your destiny.\\
'''Aile''': Only I can decide my destiny...\\
'''Giro''': Yes. Forget the past. It means nothing. The power you contain within is the key to creating your future.

->'''Aile''': I decided to become a Mega Man because I wanted to help people. You're fighting because you're trying to find out who you are, but don't forget. Only you can decide your own destiny. No matter what anyone says you are. The power you contain within is the key to creating your future. [[MasterApprenticeChain That's what a special person said to me.]]\\
'''Grey''': My destiny... My future.

->'''Grey''': Yeah, you're right, I am Defective. I'm just a person named Grey. You couldn't even change the destiny of a regular boy like me. This is the destiny that I've chosen... To live together with the people of this world!\\
'''Albert''': Is that what the "[[CloningBlues other me]]" would have said...? Goodbye, ultimate Defective! You can have your gentle peace... and leisurely rot in it! (''explodes'')

->'''Baofu''': Ahh, shut up. You can take this fate of yours and [[AssShove stick it up your ass!]] Listen up, Tatsuya. Fate is...\\
'''Katsuya''': No different than a prediction too late. If something happens, all you have to say is...\\
'''Ulala''': "It's was all fate"!
-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}} Eternal Punishment'', one of the ways to [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu flip off Nyarlathotep]]

->I see in you the power to defy fate itself.

->Keep yer stinkin' future!

-> The future doesn't belong to you!

->'''[[Characters/SuperMarioBrosBowser Bowser]]''': You believed in your prophecy, and ''we'' believed in mopping the floor with you!\\
'''Tippi''': Nothing is decided entirely by fate, you know... All things determine their destinies. Good-bye now, Dimentio. We'll add a footnote to the prophecy about your failure.

->'''Gul'dan''': This was not our destiny!\\
'''Garrosh Hellscream''': [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight Times change.]]

->'''Xe'Ra''': The Light ''is'' your Destiny.\\
'''Illidan Stormrage''': MY DESTINY IS MY ''OWN!''
-->--''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft, Legion''

->Your faith has blinded you. There can be no ChosenOne. Only we... can save ourselves.
-->--'''Illidan''' to Turalyon, ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft, Legion''

->[[spoiler:'''Damian Hawke''']]: We've been expecting you. You've had a very long journey.\\
'''Quinn Hart''': Yeah, I almost missed my date with you.\\
[[spoiler:'''Damian Hawke''']]: Yes, well..........\\
'''Quinn Hart''': How about we get straight to business? What's this about?\\
[[spoiler:'''Damian Hawke''']]: It's about survival. I am merely a provider of what is required for existence......\\
'''Quinn Hart''': "Provider"?! You're nothing but scum in a business suit.\\
[[spoiler:'''Damian Hawke''']]: Come now, there really is no need for such hostility. We are a legitimate service which.....\\
'''Quinn Hart''': [[ShutUpHannibal .....lies, cheats, steals, and assassinates. Real legitimate!]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Damian Hawke''']]: I had better hopes for you, Mr. Hart. Things did not go quite as we had planned.\\
'''Quinn Hart''': [[{{Beat}} .................]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Damian Hawke''']]: So, is this it, Mr. Hart? You disappoint me. I've waited so long for your return.\\
'''Quinn Hart''': How do you know my name? What do you mean "return"?\\
[[spoiler:'''Damian Hawke''']]: What say we call it "fate"?\\
'''Quinn Hart''': You've got a lot of nerve, mister. Fate? I don't think so.\\
[[spoiler:'''Damian Hawke''']]: How can you deny what you've already seen? Do you recall the capsule? Amazing resemblance, wouldn't you say? ''[reveals himself as Hart's clone]''\\
'''Quinn Hart''': ''[surprised]'' !!?\\

'''Quinn Hart''': Your face....like mine....and that thing....are all the same!\\
[[spoiler:'''Damian Hawke''']]: Very good. You and I are merely dolls created to maintain this organization. To keep it prosperous....Forever....After me, you will take over. After you, the one in the capsule will inherit this organization! This is our "fate", our destiny!\\
'''Quinn Hart''': Yours maybe, but that doesn't mean I'm part of this package!!\\
[[spoiler:'''Damian Hawke''']]: I see....... You leave me with very little choice, in that case....\\
'''Quinn Hart''': Enough! You're acting above the law - I'm gonna take you down!\\
[[spoiler:'''Damian Hawke''']]: Don't defy me, Hart! You are one of us! This disobedience will not be tolerated!\\
'''Quinn Hart''': Let's do it!

->"The reins of history, back in the hands of man."

->For most of us, this whole quest thing is just one big “fuck you” in the face of fate. [[BenevolentAI You]]’d fit right in!

->"Don't you dare give up without a fight! If that God of Fate is getting in the way, [[KillTheGod just kill him!]]"

->"Precept Six: 'Choose Your Own Fate'. Our elders teach that our fate is chosen for us before we are even born. I disagree. "

->"Emotions...Emotions make people behave illogically. They lead humans to break even the rules they set for themselves. Even the laws of the world aren't without exception. [[EarnYourHappyEnding Some day, some other emotion may lead to another exception....]] Let us begin. Show me the power of those emotions!"

->"Find the right way down through the maze, to the food, then find the exit. Push the exit button. If the food tastes awful, don't eat it, go back and try another way. They want the same thing that you do, really, they want a path, just like you. You are in a maze in a maze, but which one counts? Your maze, their maze, my maze. Or are the mazes all the same, defined by the limits of their paths? Existence is simple: find the food, push the button, hit the treadmill. But sometimes it gets much harder. Sometimes the food makes you sick, or you can hear nearby feet racing you, urging you on. Sometimes the button only gets you landed right back in the beginning of the maze again, and the food won't satisfy. There is only one path and that is the path that you take, but you can take more than one path. Cross over the cell bars, find a new maze, make the maze from it's path, find the cell bars, cross over the bars, find a maze, make the maze from its path, eat the food, eat the path."
-->'''Unknown [[spoiler:likely player character's subconscious]]''', ''[[VideoGame/{{Marathon}} Marathon Infinity]]''

->The power of believing cuts open destiny and starts miracles! That's right, that's what [[TrueCompanions everyone]] taught me.

->[[YouCantFightFate So, there is no way to avert tragedy.]] [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption There is no choice but to give up.]]\\

Only you can stand up to [[CycleOfRevenge this]].

->Life might look like a straight line, but I just know there's gotta be another route somewhere. I wanna find it. Even if it just leads me straight off a cliff.

->Okay, I have a theory. It's called: ''I never knew it was possible to care less about time travel.''

->I am not playing by the rules anymore. I will fly around this candy-coated rock and comb the white sands until I find answers. No one can tell me our fate can't be repaired.

->W3 [=M4KE=] OUR OWN LUCK, 4ND YOU'R3 4BOUT TO [=PROV3=] [=TH4T=].

->For the [=PMDs=], prophecy is merely soothsaying, augury, prediction of [[YouCantFightFate implacable destiny and inevitable doom.]] They do not believe prophecy is ever ''[[NoManOfWomanBorn conditional]]'', and thus fail to see that it is -- always and foremost -- a call to ''act.''

->I don't think there's such a thing as "Destiny", my opinion on those words? They're just there to try and restrict one's decisions, I say screw them.

->[[SoundEffectBleep F***]] destiny! I am Seto Kaiba! I make my own fate!

->Fate is the coward’s way out, Catherine. It is the denial of personal responsibility. Every decision I have made was my own choice, and all consequences that come from it are on my head.

->''[While stalling for time while riding nowhere]'' I go where destiny tells me to go, which is...this way, uh, I consulted and I know what it is. ''[{{Beat}}]'' Anyway, like I said before, [[SoundEffectBleep [BLEEP]]] destiny!
-->-- '''{{LetsPlay/Markiplier}}''' in his ''{{VideoGame/Minecraft}}'' lets play.

->[[ThreadOfProphecySevered THERE IS NO PROPHECY.]] THERE IS ONLY ''[[PreMortemOneLiner ME!]]''

->''They tell me that everything… has a purpose in time\\

[[TheUnchosenOne I'll write out my destiny, screaming that I'm still alive!]]\\
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We'll pave our own road, and nothing will stand in our way!\\
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Anyone can be all they can be!\\
\\

-->--'''Crono''', Music/ManOnTheInternet, ''WebVideo/ChronoTriggerTheMusical'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6WaCTMLzJU "Chrono Trigger"]]

->Destiny is not a matter of chance; it's a matter of ''choice!''

->The question that has haunted my being has been answered: The future is not fixed. My choices are my own. And yet, how ironic, for I now find I have no choice at all. I am a warrior. Let the battle be joined.

->'''Nightwing:''' I heard you're looking for help.
->'''Starfire:''' [[BreakTheCutie There is nothing you can do]]. There is nothing ''anyone'' can do. The past cannot be repaired. The future cannot be altered. No matter how wrong it seems.
->'''Nightwing:''' So, it's impossible? Good. If memory serves, we've done the impossible before.

->[[StableTimeLoop History said it disappeared]] - but history was ''wrong!''

->History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
-->-- '''[[UsefulNotes Charles de Gaulle]]'''

->Everyone keeps telling me how [[BecauseDestinySaysSo my story is supposed to go]]! '''Nah. Imma do my own thing.'''

->This tragedy, greater even than the Seventh Umbral Calamity, must be undone... If history must be unwritten, ''let it be unwritten''.

-->--'''Crono''', Creator/ManOnTheInternet, ''WebVideo/ChronoTriggerTheMusical'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6WaCTMLzJU "Chrono Trigger"]]

Blame is better to give than receive.\\
\\

-->-- '''Music/{{Rush}}''', "Freewill"

-->-- ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers: Comicbook/{{Ares|Marvel}}''

-->-- ''FanFic/NotThisTimeFate''

-->-- '''Aerith''', ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake''

-->--''Videogame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''

-->--''Videogame/{{Destiny}}'', during the Vault of Glass raid. [[note]]This message is displayed during the raid when the players manage to escape from being scattered across time by Aetheon.[[/note]]

-->--''Videogame/DiabloIII''

-->-- '''"[[SweetPollyOliver Marth]]"[[spoiler:/Lucina]]''', ''Videogame/FireEmblemAwakening''

-->-- '''Chrom''', ''Videogame/FireEmblemAwakening''

-->-- '''Basilio''', ''Videogame/FireEmblemAwakening''

-->-- '''"Gentleman" Johnny Marcone''', ''[[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Dead Beat]]''

->If history must be unwritten, let it be unwritten.

-->'''Lon'qu''' to [[spoiler:Inigo if Inigo is his son]], ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' (''Future Past'' DLC)

->Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden. You would do well to remember that.
-->-- '''Delirum''' to '''Destiny''', ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', "Brief Lives"

-->-- '''Starfire''', ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', "How Long is Forever?"

->''"Some believe the fate of our worlds is... inflexible. My employers disagree. They authorize me to... nudge... things, hm.... In a particular direction from time to time. What.. would ''you'' want nudged, Ms. Vance?"''