Quotes About Fate

Everything was one big joke. There are people like that, you know. Not many, but they're around. It's my luck that their path had to cross mine.

The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away—until you're blue in the face, and you won't be any the wiser. What's that you say? Philosophizing is like chewing straw? My very words!

After all, I'm just a human being made out of flesh and blood, like they say. And, if misfortune is fated, is there any getting around it?

If it's my fate to have a scribbler for a husband, why must you scribble in Yehupetz? Isn't there enough ink in Kasrilevke?

My mother says, "It's not brains or good looks that a person needs, it's luck.

Who says you need luck to be lucky?" my mother answered, looking at me. Search me what that means.

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it

We're brought up to expect a happy ending. But there are no happy endings. There's only death waiting for us. We find love and happiness, and it's snatched away from us without rhyme or reason. We're on a deserted space ship careening mindlessly among the stars. The world is Dachau, and we're all Jews.

Fate will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.

The wind of fate, and in it rests our lives.

Anatomy is destiny.

Everyone owes nature a death.

Rather than living our lives, we are ''lived'' by unknown and uncontrollable forces.

Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.

Here libido and ego-interest share the same fate and have once more become indistinguishable from each other. The familiar egoism of the sick person covers them both. We find it so natural because we are certain that in the same situation we should behave in just the same way. The way in which the readiness to love, however great, is banished by bodily ailments, and suddenly replaced by complete indifference, is a theme which has been sufficiently exploited by comic writers.

Eros and Ananke [Love and Necessity] have become the parents of human civilization.

The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction.

Least of all should the artist be held responsible for the fate which befalls his works.

We are naturally grieved over the fact that a just God and a kindly providence do not guard us better against such influences in our most defenseless age. We thereby gladly forget that as a matter of fact everything in our life is accident from our very origin through the meeting of spermatozoa and ovum, accident, which nevertheless participates in the lawfulness and fatalities of nature, and lacks only the connection to our wishes and illusions.

Eros und Ananke sind auch die Eltern der menschlichen Kultur geworden.

No dudo que para el Destino sería más fácil que para mí curarla, pero ya se convencerá usted de que adelantamos mucho si conseguimos transformar su miseria histérica en un infortunio corriente.

I Am the Architect of My Own Destiny

There's a certain kind of person who, having read this far, is anxiously wondering: Does something bad happen to the dog?