Fate Quotes - Page 19

• Character is fate.

  Sylvia Plath

  Character

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• ...life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch. Saphira, from "Eragon

  Christopher Paolini

  Hands, Worry, Choices

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.434, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strong, Taken, Heart

  "Ulysses" l. 65 (1842)

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• So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Rivers, May, Lasts

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World”, p.86, eKitap Projesi

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• We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all become nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life...

  Philip Pullman

  Forever, Feelings, Despair

  "Northern Lights/The Golden Compass". Book by Philip Pullman, 1995.

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• He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

  John Milton

  Strict, Left

  John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.351

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• I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.

  E. M. Forster

  Falling In Love, Moving, People

  E. M. Forster (2012). “Where Angels Fear to Tread”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry --the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for eachother: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, Flower, Kissing

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• The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Jail, People

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.68, Ballantine Books

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• “It is Fate that I am here,” persisted George. “But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”

  E. M. Forster

  Unhappy, Room With A View, Ifs

  "Collected Works of E. M. Forster".

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• Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror - on the things that I might have avoided. We can help one another but little. I used to think I could teach young people the whole of life, but I know better now, and all my teaching of George has come down to this: beware of muddle.

  E. M. Forster

  Teaching, Men, Thinking

  E.M. Forster (2016). “A Room With a View (Diversion Classics)”, p.224, Diversion Books

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• And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

  Boris Pasternak

  Heart, Doctor Zhivago

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• Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!

  Douglas Coupland

  Destiny, Loser

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “Girlfriend in a Coma: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Unrequited Love, Almonds, Scent

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Living to Tell the Tale”, p.455, Penguin UK

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• I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Wish, Half

  Mountain Interval (1916) "Birches"

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• It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all the things his MAN and his WOMAN, and most of all his BOY, had asked or expected of him. He would have died for them, if that had been required. He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor.

  Stephen King

  Dog, Boys, Destiny

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• She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and made of it a fine, even glittering, success; and this is a thing which is not easily forgiven.

  Louis Bromfield

  Taken, Awful, Made

  Louis Bromfield (1957). “A Bromfield Galaxy”

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• what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes

  William Shakespeare

  Injury, Mockery, Saved

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• You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

  Jane Austen

  People, Unhappy, Letters

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.32, Oxford University Press

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• Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

  Thomas Hardy

  Indulge In, Looks, Welcome

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1758, Delphi Classics

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• I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Suffering, Tragedy

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.580, Hamilton Books

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• Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

  Bob Dylan

  Beach, Memories, Crazy

  "Mr. Tambourine Man" (song) (1964)

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• There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

  Bob Dylan

  Life Is, Hours, Late

  'All Along the Watchtower' (1968 song)

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• Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable.

  Marcel Proust

  Dream, Phrases, Bitter

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.381, Vintage

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• The spirit in the body is like wine in a glass; when it spills, it seeps into air and earth and light….It’s a mistake to think it’s the small things we control and not the large, it’s the other way around! We can’t stop the small accident, the tiny detail that conspires into fate: the extra moment you run back for something forgotten, a moment that saves you from an accident – or causes one. But we can assert the largest order, the large human values daily, the only order large enough to see.

  Anne Michaels

  Running, Mistake, Wine

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