Fate Quotes - Page 20

• Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

  Amy Tan

  Expectations, Half, Inattention

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

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• I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it's the right thing to do. If I commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them.

  Daniel Handler

  Karma, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Daniel Handler from Jul 25, 2008

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• how hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.

  Lauren Kate

  Betrayed, Ends, Wanted

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• But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word "I," could give it up and not know what they lost. But such has been the story, for I have lived in the City of the damned, and I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Long Ago, Years

  Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.109, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

  P. L. Travers

  Stories, Accepted

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• Lady Madelyne had sealed her own fate. She'd warmed his feet.

  Julie Garwood

  Feet

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Honor's Splendour”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.

  Deanna Raybourn

  Mystery

  Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent in the Grave”, p.212, MIRA

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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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• 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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• I fear it, for her sake. It would mean that she too is a wanderer now, and that is a fate for human beings, not for unicorns. But I hope, of course I hope.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Mean, Sake, Unicorn

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Hope, Wall, Fall

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Everyman's Poetry”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• ... I'm the fortieth-ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what! What if someday she lets me kiss each one of her freckles again? She has like a million. But every one of them means something to me. Isn't this how people used to fall in love? I know we're living in Rubenstein's America, like you keep saying. But doesn't that just make us even more responsible for each other's fates? I mean, what if Eunice and I just said no to all this. To this bar. To this FACing. The two of us. What if we just went home and read books to each other?

  Gary Shteyngart

  Falling In Love, Book, Home

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• Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fighting, Siddhartha, Suffering

  Hermann Hesse (2005). “Siddhartha: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.103, Prestwick House Inc

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• Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Games, Play

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.16, Random House

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• While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.

  Li-Young Lee

  Voice, Body, Share

  "Behind My Eyes: Poems". Book by Li-Young Lee, 2008.

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• But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.

  David Clement-Davies

  Animal, Men, Hands

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• He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures; the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god.

  Ian Mcewan

  Law, Sky, Chance

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Saturday”, p.128, Random House

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• It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

  Gregory David Roberts

  Wall, Heart, Long

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We know she’s a girl. We can never emphasize this enough, because this is the fate of colored girls globally right now: the denial of their girlhood, the denial of their childhood, and the constant state of risk and danger they are living in.

  Bell Hooks

  Girl, Thinking, Years

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• We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Moving, Fighting, Winning

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). “The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Vintage

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• Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain. All of my regret, will wash away somehow. But i can not forget, the way i feel right now.

  Rob Thomas

  Regret, Fall, Twists

  Song: Little Wonders

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• I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate

  Robert Graves

  Struggle, Use, Made

  Robert Graves, Richard Francis (2000). “I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Desire, Puppets, Scar

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.420, Penguin

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• Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.

  Homer

  Grief, Men, Brave

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• alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wall, Men, Cities

  Charles Bukowski, “Alone With Everybody”

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