Inevitable Fate Quotes

• I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

  Frank Herbert

  Fate, Power, Siege

  "Dune Messiah". Book by Frank Herbert, 1969.

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• We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions.

  Joe Peterson

  Fate, Acceptance, Predictions

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• You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fate, Evil, Waiting

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck by the parallels between this image and the inevitable fate of humanity, do not, under any circumstances, write it down.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Fate, Car

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Fate, Men, People

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  Robert Rauschenberg

  Mean, Fate, Hands

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