Fate Quotes - Page 22

• The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

  Albert Einstein

  Waiting, Individuality, Criticism

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• Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault - that if you'd tried better, worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance? I know poeple who'll hear about the people who died, and will say that it was God's will. I know people who'll say it was bad luck. And then there's my personal favorite: They were just in the wrong place at hte wrong time. Then again, you could say the same thing about me, couldn't you?

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, People, Luck

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• We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind?....... We make our own destiny.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Destiny

  Swami Vivekananda (1962). “What Religion is: In the Words of Swami Vivekananda”

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• I heed not that my earthly lot Hath - little of Earth in it - That years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute: - I mourn not that the desolate Are happier, sweet, than I, But that you sorrow for my fate Who am a passer by.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sweet, Years, Hatred

  Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.137, University of Illinois Press

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• Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Crazy, Lying, Men

  Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1976). “The Portable Cervantes”, p.427, Penguin

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• I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased... I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life's struggle. But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about... I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.

  Helen Keller

  Country, Struggle, Overcoming

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• there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.

  Charles Bukowski

  Chance, Trapped

  Charles Bukowski, “Alone With Everybody”

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• Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Accepting, Renounce

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.45, Vintage

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• From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny. If only you can get there. If it isn't too late. If no one stops you.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Journey, Destiny

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• No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Destiny, Men, Bears

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• Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then, amusing things happened in battle, as they did in the rest of life. Some of the funniest things he had ever witnessed had occurred during battles. He had always found it more satisfying to laugh on a battlefield than anywhere else, for if you lived to laugh on a battlefield, you could feel you had earned the laugh. But if you just laughed in a saloon, or at a social, the laugh didn't reach deep.

  Larry McMurtry

  Yankees, Rest Of Life, Laughing

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• Fate...may...be...thwarted.

  Gail Carson Levine

  May

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• All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Forever, Exile

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.361, Penguin

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• Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

  Victor Hugo

  Running, Cat, Opportunity

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a psychiatrist's office, or renting surfboards...I guess I saw their lives as failed somehow, absent of the Big Win...What is fate was an inherited trait? What if luck came through the genetic line, and the ability to "succeed" at your chosen "direction" was handed down, just like the family china? Maybe I was destined to be a weed too.

  Deb Caletti

  Weed, Mother, Winning

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• A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. The desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. Its very nature is stone.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Heart, Destiny, Men

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• Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll either lock me up or tell me to get a grip and no one will believe the truth anyway.

  Meg Rosoff

  Dog, Believe, Doctors

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• Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom

  Charles Baudelaire

  Winter, Bored, Way

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• If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its own sake, but only to avoid an early demise. No one would speak out against evil because of his own courageous soul, but only to live another day. The right to choose is man's great gift, but one thing is not his to choose--the time and means of death.

  Martine Leavitt

  Mean, Men, Speaks Out

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• Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Obsolescence, Dies

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away

  Candace Bushnell

  Baby, Falling In Love, Mistake

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• This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

  H. G. Wells

  Art, Energy, Decay

  H. G. Wells (2016). “The Time Machine: Classic Fantasy Action and Adventure Mystery Horror Humour Science fiction comic Art”, p.31, Fantasia Publish

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• By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate.

  Aimee Friedman

  Believe, Night, Mountain

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• On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate.

  David Clement-Davies

  Children, Hate, Understanding

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• Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Mean, Missing, Ladders

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