Fate Quotes

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.

Aldous Huxley

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill - Fated creature is born.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov".

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

La Rochefoucauld

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.

Joni Mitchell, song - The Last Time I Saw Richard

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

Leonid Brezhnev

Fate only takes you so far. The rest is up to you.

Unknown

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self - Inflicted fate.

Albert Einstein

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.

John Fletcher, 1647

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Euripides

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

George Santayana

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

Theodore Roethke

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Homer, The Iliad

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi

You were a stranger to sorrow therefore Fate has cursed you.

Euripides