Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Fate

Quotes about: Fate

• When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Death, Fate, Honor

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1906). “Famous Speeches, Complete ...”

• We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Children, Fate

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4678, Library of Alexandria

• Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will; over which swept all the storms of fate, ambition and revenge; upon which fell the gloom and darkness of despair and death and all the sunlight of content and love, and within which was the inverted sky lit with the eternal stars -- an intellectual ocean -- toward which all rivers ran, and from which now the isles and continents of thought receive their dew and rain.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Revenge, Rain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.616, Library of Alexandria

• The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow -- Hope shining upon the tears of grief.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Grief, Book, Heart

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Clinton P. Farrell (1900). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Discussions”

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