FATE QUOTES IV

quotations about fate

Thy fate is seeking thee,
Fear not! Fear not!
Nor hither, thither run, with puny strain
Of frenzied fingers on this closèd door,
Or that, to find her. Leave thy worse than vain
And feverish seeking; fret thy soul no more,
Nor vex the heavens with ineffectual cries;
Fate will adjust her perfect harmonies
And weave thee in.

CLARA MARCELLE FARRAR GREENE

"Thy Fate Is Seeking Thee"


Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much ...

TIM LEBBON

Face


When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd


Fate was some kind of an invisible beast lurking around them, teasing them. I could have killed you today if I wanted to, it was thinking. Or maybe tomorrow. Hee, hee. You'll never know. Just don't tempt me.

AUDREY PFITZENMAIER

Cheating Fate


Fate happens.

DOTTI ENDERLE

Hand of Fate


If fate be not, then what can we foresee?
And how can we avoid it if it be?
If by free will in our own paths we move,
How are we bounded by decrees of above?
Whether we drive, or whether we are driven,
If ill, 'tis ours; if good, the act of heaven.

JOHN DRYDEN

The Tempest


I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

RONALD REAGAN

First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981


Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart,
Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

Fate of Poverty in London


So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

CHINA MIéVILLE

Kraken


Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.

BHARTRHARI

"The Praise of Destiny"


The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


Fate is just the steps we take to follow destiny.

JUSTIN ROBERT HARNISH

King


Fate is like a coconut--you never know when it's gonna fall. Can be good, can be bad. If it falls on your head, tough luck. If it falls at your feet, you've got something sweet to eat, something sweet to drink.

MARILENE PHIPPS-KETTLEWELL

The Company of Heaven


Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

"Fate and History"


Fate always wins, for our own heart within us
Imperiously furthers its designs.

FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Wallenstein


Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.

MEG ROSOFF

Just In Case


The working out of fate isn't just some large anonymous and separate natural system that surrounds you; ultimately, it is you, too. We're part of this world, inseparably; this means that all of your thoughts, dreams, urges, ideas, aren't just "yours"--they are the world's. They are the threads of fate. For all that, you are still the vehicle of their expression, and you bear responsibility for them.

ROBIN ARTISSON

The Flaming Circle


Every one is more or less master of his own fate.

AESOP

"The Traveller and Fortune" Aesop's Fables


Spin thy plain thread--'tis wanted soon or late;
No friend will seek thee out so sure as Fate.

CLARA MARCELLE FARRAR GREENE

"Thy Fate Is Seeking Thee"


Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

Blood Meridian