Fate Quotes
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For those whom God to ruin has design'd,He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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It gives me no rest, my wish to know the fate of all these scenes that entered my eyes and have remained in my thoughts. What happens to them when I am no longer there?
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Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?
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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
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For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.
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As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.
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Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.
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After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
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You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate.
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But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.
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So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn't right, and there's no way to cross things out.
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A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.
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I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.
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When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.
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In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
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Ain't no man can outrun his fate.
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Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.
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But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the who is loved.
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Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
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Austerity need not be Europe's fate.
