Quotes About Fate

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

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.

Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.

All must pay the debt of nature.

But the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of which, it is sometimes sensed, the direction is inevitable.

Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and gravel to it.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.

When forces of nature are involved, fate gets all the blame.

The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice...

Saul was going to kill Anansi.They both knew it. Saul was going to kill Anansi and Loplop and King Rat, and Saul was going to die, all in an effort to prove that he was not his rat-father's son.

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.