Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

Seneca the Younger

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• I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Music
  • Country
  • Fate

• My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Hands
  • Fate
  • Allah

• I'm not in control of my fate, and that's a good thing.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Control
  • Fate

• Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Great
  • Culture
  • Fate

• Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Fate

• It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the process.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Work
  • Process
  • Fate

• Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Sweet
  • Fate

• There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Taken
  • Fate

• In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror; Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth, And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest, And you shall know that guest, And read the authentic message of his eyes.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Eyes

• Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing-glove.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Fate
  • Boxing

• There is an indolence in griefWhich will not even seek relief. What is the toil, or care, or pain,The human heart cannot sustain?Enough if struggling can createA change or colour in our fate;But where's the spirit that can copeWith listless suffering, when hope,The last of misery's allies,Sickens of its sweet self, and dies.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Pain

• A fate is not a punishment.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Fate
  • Punishment

• At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Time
  • Age
  • Daily

• My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent to suffer this fate since the end of the Cold War. I'm stunned. But my expulsion is not, I reflect, a surprise. It's something I have always accepted as a real, if far-fetched, possibility.

  

  Luke Harding
  • Real
  • War
  • Fashion

• I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • God
  • Nature
  • Humanity

• Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Life
  • Hand
  • Fate

• I'm a very big believer in fate.

  

  Christopher Atkins
  • Fate

• Fate loves the fearless.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Fate
  • Fearless

• And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Tender
  • Moan
  • Woodlands

• In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Money
  • Chance
  • Answers

• The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • Solitude

• She could make more phone calls in a day than any human being I ever worked with, ... She always could outwork any young person. She pushed like there was no tomorrow.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • She
  • Person
  • Phone

• You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.

  

  Betty Boothroyd
  • Ensure
  • Points of View
  • Holders

• Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Fate