Fate Quotes
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Here was irrefutable proof that he was using the Holocaust to speak of the extermination of animal life. Doomed creatures that could not speak for themselves were being given the voice of a most articulate people who had been similarly doomed. He was seeing the tragic fate of animals through the tragic fate of Jews. The Holocaust as allegory.
Yann Martel
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A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.
H. G. Wells
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Eh! sire, that is the fate of truth; she is a stern companion; she bristles all over with steel; she wounds those whom she attacks, and sometimes him who speaks her.
Alexandre Dumas
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Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.
Alexander Lowen
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The bird stabs the worm, the big cat breaks the bird’s neck, the man casts his spear into the heart of the cat. That is how the world is. Even the man had better look behind him; the wolf may be near, or another man, or fate, the hungriest hunter of them all.
Tanith Lee
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Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
Elbert Hubbard
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All sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.
Kate Chopin
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The fate of the world for the next Islamic year, if bin Laden has his way, will include the nuclear destruction of the United States
Paul Williams
The Temptations
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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
Omar Khayyam
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If we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.
Hannah Arendt
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Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
Elbert Hubbard
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In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
