Fate Quotes
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All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.
Iamblichus
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Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.
Paulo Coelho
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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
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
Charles Baudelaire
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One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.
Alvar N. C. de Vaca
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
Cormac McCarthy
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My closest friend and brother – this world is lucky to have a great personality as Kim Il Sung. This causes my boundless happiness. The fate of the world revolution and the international communist movement are on your shoulders, Comrade Kim Il Sung. I wish you long life and good health.
Mao Zedong
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I have become so accustomed to think "scientifically" that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond the outer covering of life. I feel like a man condemned to death, whose companions have been hanged and who has already become reconciled to the thought that the same fate awaits him.
Pyotr Ouspensky
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And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Elizabeth Bowen
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To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts and souls. This has often become a tragic fate for us.
Baldur von Schirach
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Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
Anna Seward
