Fate Quotes V

FATE QUOTES V

quotations about fate

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Natural History of Intellect

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Fate in the life of a people, as in the life of an individual, signifies an existence of compulsion. A strange necessity binds the particulars into one whole. The individual, against his will, is subjected and subjugated to the national, fate-laden, reality.

JOSEPH DOV SOLOVEITCHIK

Fate and Destiny

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Fate remains a confrontation with that which cannot be explained in any other way. It is a part of the very meaning of fate that it is incomprehensible, but this curiously does not mean that all who accept fate are irrational. Whatever is experienced is contingent, and insofar as it is contingent it is not necessary; and not being necessary it is not a product of pure reason. But no one would say that what is contingent is irrational. It might be said to be nonrational, meaning it is not known necessarily; but the term "irrational" is usually reserved for that which directly contradicts itself, like an odd number wholly divisible by two, or a married bachelor. Fate is troubling and perhaps even nonrational, but it is certainly not irrational.

MICHAEL GELVEN

Truth and Existence

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Every one is more or less master of his own fate.

AESOP

"The Traveller and Fortune" Aesop's Fables

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Fate is like a coconut--you never know when it's gonna fall. Can be good, can be bad. If it falls on your head, tough luck. If it falls at your feet, you've got something sweet to eat, something sweet to drink.

MARILENE PHIPPS-KETTLEWELL

The Company of Heaven

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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

ELIE WIESEL

The Time of the Uprooted

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Fate is just the steps we take to follow destiny.

JUSTIN ROBERT HARNISH

King

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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate,
All but the page prescribed, their present state:
From brutes what men, from men what spirits know:
Or who could suffer being here below?

ALEXANDER POPE

An Essay on Man

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Submit, then, to fate, always assured that whatever is, is best.

EDU HASSAN

New York Mirror

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Fate is like being dealt a hand of cards with which we must play the game of life.

JOHN A. SANFORD

What Men Are Like

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Fate is like our guardian angel who watches over us when we tend to stray off of our Divine Path and Purpose. It warns us and gives us a friendly and warm nudge of love to steer us back on track and in the right direction.

MARY BOWERS

Before the Last Teardrop Falls

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Fate, or "inevitability", has to do with events in history that are beyond the control of any circle of group of men having three characteristics: (1) compact enough to be identifiable, (2) powerful enough to decide with consequence, and (3) in a position to foresee these consequences and so to be held accountable for them. Events, according to this conception, are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men. Each of their decisions is minute in consequence and subject to concellation or reinforcement by other such decisions. There is no link between any one man's intention and the summary result of the innumerable decisions. Events are beyond human decisions: History is made behind men's backs.

CHARLES WRIGHT MILLS

The Sociological Imagination

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Fate's always tricky. She likes to wait till she gets you by the back of the neck, so you can't do a thing, and then passes you all that's coming to you.

RIDGWELL COLLUM

The Law-Breakers

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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

Blood Meridian

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When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune

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Great powers may be shaping the general turn of events, but human personalities still determine their own fate.