Fate Quotes - Page 16

• Fate is unpenetrated causes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Causes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.331

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• Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Nature, Destiny

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• Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.

  William S. Burroughs

  Water, Suffering, Youth

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• Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

  Cliff Burton

  Games, Fields, Used

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• I think "destiny" is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

  Jodie Foster

  Destiny, Thinking, Patterns

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?

  Thomas Frank

  Wall, Economic, Form

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• I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

  Novalis

  Character, Realizing, Feels

  Heinrich von Ofterdingen bk. 2 (1802). Often quoted as "character is destiny" or "character is fate." See George Eliot 6; Heraclitus 2

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• Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.

  Susan Orlean

  Decision, Borders, Demise

  "Bookmarked" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 17, 2011.

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• American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

  Camille Paglia

  War, Different, World

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• Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

  Camille Paglia

  Real, Years, Geography

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• It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark - And crowd the little Room - Too scant - by Cubits - to contain The Sacrament - of Him - I am not used to Hope - It might intrude upon - Its sweet parade - blaspheme the place - Ordained to Suffering - It might be easier To fail - with Land in Sight - Than gain - My Blue Peninsula - To perish - of Delight -

  Emily Dickinson

  Sweet, Loneliness, Dark

  Emily Dickinson, James Reeves (1959). “Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.38, Heinemann

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• As the years have gone on and you start to know your character better than some of the writers and directors do, you get a little bit more of a world in which you can say, "I think it would be really great, if this year, her fate wasn't determined by the boys," or that kind of thing. You have to pick your battles and make sure that you've earned the right to talk about that.

  Deborah Ann Woll

  Character, Boys, Thinking

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• Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

  Dean Koontz

  Different, Path, Free Will

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.149, Bantam

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• If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Daughter, Light, People

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• ...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the shoulder while we're still muttering to ourselves, It's all over, that's it, who cares anyhow.

  Jose Saramago

  Hands, Who Cares, Way

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• Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Care

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• I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

  Anne Fadiman

  Typos, Imagine, Walking

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• Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Forget You, Strive, Born

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.258, Penguin

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• And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

  Amy Tan

  Thinking, Expectations, Rose

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.131, Penguin

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• I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart to dust. Struck by the clouds of cruel fate My crown of Summer bloom is sere Alone and sad, I watch and wait And wonder if the end is near. As conquered by the last cold air When Winter whistles in the wind Alone upon a branch that's bare A trembling leaf is left behind.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Summer, Dream, Heart

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• Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

  Dodie Smith

  Kindness, Blow, Circles

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.85, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

  Saul Bellow

  Character, Men, Doors

  1953 The Adventures of Augie March.

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• I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.

  Katherine Paterson

  Katherine Paterson (2003). “Preacher's Boy”, p.11, Oxford University Press, USA

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• when fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Wells, Generous

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• You imagine that there's no use struggling against fate, that she will always have her way, no matter what we do. But don't you see? It's our very efforts to cheat fate, or to change it, that make things come to pass in the way they were meant to.

  Gary L. Blackwood

  Struggle, Effort, Use

  Gary L. Blackwood (2003). “Shakespeare's Spy”, Dutton Childrens Books

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