Fate Quotes
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The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
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Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.
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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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As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.
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Peace....Henrietta was not quite sure what it was but she knew it was very important. If one wanted it, Grandfather had told her once, one must not hit back when fate hit hard but must allow the hammer-strokes to batter out a hollow place inside one into which peace, like cool water, could flow.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
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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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Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.
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I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
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Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.
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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.
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It's precisely because we're people that we have the power to change our own fate. So let's all change together.
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But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.
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Isn't Fate Artistic?
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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You can only control so much, in the end the rest is up to fate.
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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.
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The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
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I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
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Man is man, and master of his fate.
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Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?
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Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire.
