Quotes about fate
fate perfect imitation
Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
fate men given
Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate. Sigrid Undset
fate realization doe
One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously. Sigmund Freud
fate doubt suffering
I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.
fate men suffering
The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them.
fate littles sugar
Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar. Shirley Jackson
fate your-side world
With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're gonna need someone on your side. You can't do it by yourself any longer - you're gonna need someone on your side. Steven Morrissey
fate sacrifice men
After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one of its break-away sects, which believed that God accepted the torture-sacrifice of an innocent man in exchange for not visiting a worse fate on the rest of humanity. The sect is called Christianity. Steven Pinker
fate weight ruins
Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom! Robert Burns
fate bears earth
Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike. Robert Browning
fate fulfilled
Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed, So shall they be fulfilled.
fate rabbits needs
Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate. Richard Adams
fate hands fabric
No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others Rainer Maria Rilke
fate long-ago blood
They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.
fate doe
What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.
fate should-have things-in-life
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.
fate whole-life has-beens
My whole life has been decided by fate. Sharon Tate
fate careers the-end-of-the-day
You definitely have to be focused at certain times in your life and in your career, but at the end of the day, there's only so much you can do. Then you just have to chock it up to fate. Skylar Astin
fate destiny champion
Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool. Michael Moorcock
fate mad wish
Are you mad? (Artemis) Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us here for no purpose except to toy with us for their petty amusement. I wish all of the gods were dead and gone. (Acheron) Sherrilyn Kenyon
fate wind hurricanes
Nothing is ever truly set by fate. In one blink, everything changes. Even though it should be a clear, sunny day, the softest whisper into the wind can become a hurricane that destroys everything it touches. (Acheron)
fate son finals
I am the god Apostolos. The Harbinger of Telikos. The Final Fate of all. Beloved son of Apollymi the Great Destroyer. My will makes the will of the universe. [Apostolos / Acheron Parthenopaeus]
fate agony olympus
He struggled to breathe through the agony in his chest. The Fates were still mocking him. It must be a boring day for them up on Olympus.
fate choices who-we-are
The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are John Perkins
fate exercise choices
I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.
fate yield judging
Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife. John Milton
fate men shears
And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
fate chance approach
Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
fate strict left
He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity;
fate greatness hands
By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.
fate destiny civilization
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind. Norman Borlaug
fate way connected
But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand. Mitch Albom
fate mind body
I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death. Neil deGrasse Tyson