FATE QUOTES VI

quotations about fate

It may well be that a man is at times horribly threshed by misfortunes, public and private: but the reckless flail of Fate, when it beats the rich sheaves, crushes only the straw; and the corn feels nothing of it and dances merrily on the floor, careless whether its way is to the mill or the furrow.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Fate is like being dealt a hand of cards with which we must play the game of life.

JOHN A. SANFORD

What Men Are Like


Fate isn't sentient; it can't make decisions.

RICK CHIANTARETTO

Facade of Shadows


Fate is irrevocable, and invincible, and an unchangeable decree; a necessity of all things and actions, according to eternal appointment.

SENECA

Epistles


Fate is the most real thing that I see in my own and anyone else's life. It is not a fiction, but the cruellest of pincers pinching our lives.

ALEKSEI FEDOROVICH LOSEV

The Dialectics of Myth


A man's character is his fate.

HERACLITUS


If you please to plant yourself on the side of Fate, and say, Fate is all; then we say, a part of Fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in the soul. Intellect annuls Fate.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The Conduct of Life


Fate never knows when comedy ends and tragedy begins.

FRANK FRANKFORT MOORE

The Original Woman


Fate never knocks at the wrong door, dear. You just may not be ready to answer.

SARALEE ROSENBERG

Fate and Ms. Fortune


The harder thy fate, the softer thine heart.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


Fate, show thy force; ourselves we do not owe;
What is decreed must be; and be this so.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Twelfth Night


Great powers may be shaping the general turn of events, but human personalities still determine their own fate.

DAN SIMMONS

The Fall of Hyperion


Fate comes by our own agency. It belongs to our underlying spiritual values, because it is unattainable without experience of the world, and therefore differs from one person to the next.

STELIOS RAMPHOS

Fate and Ambiguity in Oedipus the King


I think sometimes fate cuts you a break. Like it says, okay, you've had enough of that crap, so it's time you fell into something nice. See what you make out of it.

J. D. ROBB

Interlude in Death


That which, to him whose will is not developed, is fate, is, to him who has a well-fashioned will, power.

JOHN CONOLLY

The Westminster Review, Jan. 1865


Man makes his fate according to his mind:
The weak, low spirit Fortune makes her slave:
But she's a drudge when hector'd by the brave.
If Fate weave common thread, I'll change the doom,
And with new purple weave a nobler loom.

JOHN DRYDEN

The Conquest of Granada


Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.

REINHARD BENDIX

Force


It lies not in our power to love, or hate,
For will in us is over-rul'd by fate.

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Hero and Leander


Fate is what Heaven imparts.

DAGOBERT D. RUNES

The Dictionary of Philosophy


All gamblers are losers.... Because, in the end, if you gamble, you're playing against fate, and fate always wins.

KATY LEDERER

Poker Face