Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Fate

Quotes about: Fate

• Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Fate, Addiction

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery”, p.80, Random House

• I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fate, Destiny, Choices

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fate, Destiny, Worry

• The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Strong, Lying, Fate

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Weight”, Canongate Books

• What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fate, Opposites, Choices

  Jeanette Winterson (2010). “Weight”, p.97, Canongate Books

• For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fate, May, Moments

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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