There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.
– William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 2. Against Horatio’s advice, Hamlet agrees to fight in the fencing match with Laertes, son of Polonius whom Hamlet has slain. Hamlet says that you cannot deny fate or God’s will. If something to fated to happen, it will happen. If not now, then later. If not later, then now. Hamlet is accepting of his mortality.