Fate Quotes - Page 40

• It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

  Seneca the Younger

  Struggle, Destiny, Soul

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• The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

  Joseph Addison

  Character, Destiny, Men

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Francis Prévost, Francis William Blagdon (1833). “The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes”, p.212

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• We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Wall, Father

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.265, Penguin

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• The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Revenge, Destiny, Law

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1894). “The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier: Life and letters”

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• Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great:
  That ample urn holds all men's names.

  Horace

  Destiny, Men, Law

  "Odes and Epodes".

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• He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

  Boethius

  Destiny, Feet, Looks

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (1964). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.9, Aeterna Press

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• It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

  James F. Cooper

  Decay, All Things

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• The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Character, Destiny, Iron

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.86, Booklassic

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• Fate is nonawareness.

  Jan Kott

  Destiny

  Jan Kott, Boleslaw Taborski, Edward J. Czerwinski (1987). “Eating of the Gods”, p.157, Northwestern University Press

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• What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Funny, Destiny, People

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• Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Believe, Destiny, Childhood

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2013). “Duino Elegies/Duineser Elegien: A Dual-Language Book”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Fate is a great accident.

  Arvo Ylppo

  Destiny, Accidents

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• Destiny is that which we are drawn towards and Fate is that which we run into.

  Wyatt Earp

  Running, Destiny

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• Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.

  Howard Thurman

  Destiny, Men, Doe

  Howard Thurman (2006). “Howard Thurman: Essential Writings”

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• I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis wrote that fate and soul are two names for the same principle.

  Liz Greene

  Plato, Destiny, Names

  Liz Greene (1985). “The Astrology of Fate”, p.14, Weiser Books

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• We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Destiny, Long, Failing

  Orison Swett Marden (1909). “Peace, Power, and Plenty”

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• But I marry myself. I take my fate as within.

  Sena Jeter Naslund

  Rainy Day, Rainy

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• In that endless time, we are born in the same age. In that infinite space, to be able to meet and become one with you, that fate is really amazing and the miracle is really beautiful.

  Kim A-joong

  Beautiful, Drama, Endless Time

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• Our lives are of great worth if we accept with good grace the situation Providence places us in, and go on living lovingly.

  Takashi Nagai

  Destiny, Grace, Goes On

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• No one could reach Amy Winehouse before it was too late. Can anyone reach Washington before it's too late? Both addicted - same fate?

  Billy Long

  Too Late, Amy, Before It's Too Late

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• Our fate is something which exists outside ourselves, and which once revealed expresses the meaning of our lives. Apart, however, from soothsayers who claim to have a means of foretelling exactly what will befall us, this kind of fate is only normally revealed after a life has ended. Only then can the meaning of that life be understood.

  Andrew Gamble

  Mean, Kind, Life Is

  Andrew Gamble (2013). “Politics and Fate”, p.19, John Wiley & Sons

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• Fate is a manifestation of natural causes. That's it. It's not a conscious entity. It has no plan.

  Walter Wykes

  Causes, Natural, Conscious

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• If you are blessed with great fortunes. . . you may love your fate. But your fate never guarantees the security of those great fortunes. As soon as you realize your helplessness at the mercy of your fate, you are again in despair. Thus the hatred of fate can be generated not only by misfortunes, but also by great fortunes. Your hatred of fate is at the same time your hatred of your self. You hate your self for being so helpless under the crushing power of fate.

  T. K. Seung

  Crush, Hate, Blessed

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• The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.

  C. Wright Mills

  Years, Best Year, Corporations

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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• In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an atomic bombing, the vast majority around the world can only vaguely imagine such horror, and these days, John Hersey's Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth are all but forgotten. As predicted by the saying, 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,' the probability that nuclear weapons will be used and the danger of nuclear war are increasing.

  Tadatoshi Akiba

  Memories, War, Past

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