Fate Quotes - Page 25

• Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning and are spared the terror of knowing ourselves to be random, without a why; or else, of course, we might-as pessimists-give up right here and now, understanding the futility of thought decision action, since nothing we think makes any difference anyway, things will be as they will. Where, then, is optimism? In fate or in chaos?

  Salman Rushdie

  Cheer, Giving Up, Thinking

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• History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Brilliant, Made

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• Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.

  Brian Jacques

  Fickle, Company, Short Lived

  Brian Jacques (2006). “The Ribbajack: and Other Haunting Tales”, p.51, Penguin

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• They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They send me a hero I can't help ... just the sort of person I can't help falling in love with." ... As I sailed into the lake I realized the Fates really were cruel. They sent Calypso someone she couldn't help but love. But it worked both ways. For the rest of my life I would be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if.

  Rick Riordan

  Falling In Love, Hero, Thinking

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• As Carl Jung once said, 'When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.' When our boys become adults, we become their inner situation. We become inner voices they often hear in their work, relationships and spiritual practice.

  Michael Gurian

  Spiritual, Boys, Practice

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• O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.

  Albert Camus

  Summer, Drama, Character

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.202, Vintage

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• Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.

  Dean Koontz

  Hands, Suffering, Invitations

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Intensity: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam

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• Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and achievement—Demeter's grain and fruit—it is also concerned with guiding a child to his or her unknown depths and the mystery of fate.

  Thomas Moore

  Children, Passion, Achievement

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

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• Fate Marches on, demanding we find our destinies

  Christina Dodd

  Destiny, March, Our Destiny

  Christina Dodd (2009). “Storm of Shadows: The Chosen Ones”, p.184, Penguin

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• Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Destiny, Worry, Want

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• The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch." - Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)

  Darren Shan

  Heart, Hands, Watches

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• Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it’s impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Hate, Heart, People

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• It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.

  Robin McKinley

  Littles, Odd, Should

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• The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Want, Danger, Turns

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• With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're gonna need someone on your side. You can't do it by yourself any longer - you're gonna need someone on your side.

  Steven Morrissey

  Your Side, Needs, World

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• You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

  Eric Roth

  Death, Letting Go, Dog

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• All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Revision, Ruthless, Plans

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• Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing.

  Herman Melville

  Laughing

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• Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.

  Frances Mayes

  Expression, Blood, Ideas

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• Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?

  Howard Stern

  Misunderstood, Genius, Hey

  "Fictional character: Howard Stern". "Private Parts", 1997.

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• Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

  Leo Tolstoy

  Complaining, May, Made

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• Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or—and the outward semblance is the same—crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Character, Departed

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “The Scarlet Letter (Annotated And Illustrated Edition)”, p.178, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.

  Hilary Mantel

  Flower, Men, Orange

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• There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Valentine, Struggle, Fighting

  "The Count of Monte Cristo".

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• ...This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond. [...] We never look beyond our assumptions and, what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves. We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were to become aware of the fact that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy. [...] As for me, I implore fate to give me the chance to see beyond myself and truly meet someone.

  Muriel Barbery

  Crazy, Mirrors, People

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, books.google.ru. September, 2 2013.

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