FATE QUOTES IV

quotations about fate

Fate happens.

DOTTI ENDERLE

Hand of Fate


The working out of fate isn't just some large anonymous and separate natural system that surrounds you; ultimately, it is you, too. We're part of this world, inseparably; this means that all of your thoughts, dreams, urges, ideas, aren't just "yours"--they are the world's. They are the threads of fate. For all that, you are still the vehicle of their expression, and you bear responsibility for them.

ROBIN ARTISSON

The Flaming Circle


So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

CHINA MIéVILLE

Kraken


Fate's always tricky. She likes to wait till she gets you by the back of the neck, so you can't do a thing, and then passes you all that's coming to you.

RIDGWELL COLLUM

The Law-Breakers


Fate is just the steps we take to follow destiny.

JUSTIN ROBERT HARNISH

King


Fate in the life of a people, as in the life of an individual, signifies an existence of compulsion. A strange necessity binds the particulars into one whole. The individual, against his will, is subjected and subjugated to the national, fate-laden, reality.

JOSEPH DOV SOLOVEITCHIK

Fate and Destiny


I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

RONALD REAGAN

First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981


Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.

BHARTRHARI

"The Praise of Destiny"


If fate be not, then what can we foresee?
And how can we avoid it if it be?
If by free will in our own paths we move,
How are we bounded by decrees of above?
Whether we drive, or whether we are driven,
If ill, 'tis ours; if good, the act of heaven.

JOHN DRYDEN

The Tempest


Fate is like a coconut--you never know when it's gonna fall. Can be good, can be bad. If it falls on your head, tough luck. If it falls at your feet, you've got something sweet to eat, something sweet to drink.

MARILENE PHIPPS-KETTLEWELL

The Company of Heaven


Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

"Fate and History"


A man's character is his fate.

HERACLITUS


Fate is like being dealt a hand of cards with which we must play the game of life.

JOHN A. SANFORD

What Men Are Like


Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast,
He dieth not, unless the appointed time,
The limit of his life's span, coincide;
Nor does the man who by the hearth at home
Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.

AESCHYLUS

Fragment


Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

Blood Meridian


Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much ...

TIM LEBBON

Face


Our fate is something which exists outside ourselves, and which once revealed expresses the meaning of our lives. Apart, however, from soothsayers who claim to have a means of foretelling exactly what will befall us, this kind of fate is only normally revealed after a life has ended. Only then can the meaning of that life be understood.

ANDREW GAMBLE

Politics and Fate


Fate is an inherent disposition in things mobile, by which Providence binds things to that which It has ordained.

BOETHIUS

De Consolatione IV


All we can control in life is our own choices, how we choose to live and deal with what life has to offer. Everything else is fate.

MARK PURYEAR

The Nature of Asatru


Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart,
Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

Fate of Poverty in London