Quotes About Fatalism

Believing that all has been ordained by God can lead to fatalism, but fatalism is not the same thing as belief. It's a cheat: an abdication of responsibility.

do enjoy it when you get optimistically fatalistic,

For long ages, too, no notice whatever was taken of the criminals sin; he was regarded as harmful, not guilty, and looked upon as a piece of destiny; and the criminal on his side took his punishment as a piece of destiny which had overtaken him, and bore it with the same fatalism ... In general we may say that punishment tames the man, but does not make him better.

Some things you simply accepted, the way you accepted the sunrise or the winter cold. They called it lupine fatalism, but in reality it was plain common sense.

But basically he remained the same: without belief in himself or in the human race; a fatalistic hedonist who lived in pre-suicidal gloom. Religions lied.

Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

His voice was heavy with Slavic fatalism.

I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

If I am going to die, I might as well die sarcastic.

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

Cuando el sentimiento de melancolía bovina, de irremediable fatalismo se transforma en un lacerante sentido del horror, el absurdo opio del optimismo acude en ayuda de los hombres.

locals' cheerful fatalism. "If you were to go to the gas station in the morning, that might be a good way to convince them to part with a little diesel." "Funny," she said, poking him a little harder

Humans are remarkably adaptable, and in some ways we adapt better to the worst-case scenario than to the idea that anything can be better. There is a full cup of fatalism in the recipe for Homo sapiens sapiens , and some of us are very much more comfortable with the world ending than it going on.

in contrast to a garment of praise, guilt is the uniform. It's a straitjacket called fatalism.

there is a danger inherent in the teaching...that man is nothing but the result of biological, psychological and sociological conditions, or the product of heredity and environment. This neurotic fatalism is fostered and strengthened by a psychotherapy which denies that man is free. It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

How resilient I am; and how fatalistic now; and how little I mind and how much; and how good my novel is; and how tired I am this morning; and how I like praise; and how full of ideas I am; and Tom and Stephen came to tea, and Ray and William dine; and I forgot to describe my interesting talk with Nessa about my criticizing her children; and I left out—I forget what.

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve.

numa terra de conformismo e usura, onde o funcionário se agarrava ao cargo como ostra, o comerciante e o industrial roíam sem pena o consumidor esbrugado, o operário se esfalfava à toa, o camponês aguentava todas as iniquidades, fatalista, sereno.