FATE QUOTES VI

quotations about fate


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When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.

FRANK HERBERT
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Chapterhouse: Dune


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Great powers may be shaping the general turn of events, but human personalities still determine their own fate.

DAN SIMMONS

The Fall of Hyperion


Fate, or "inevitability", has to do with events in history that are beyond the control of any circle of group of men having three characteristics: (1) compact enough to be identifiable, (2) powerful enough to decide with consequence, and (3) in a position to foresee these consequences and so to be held accountable for them. Events, according to this conception, are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men. Each of their decisions is minute in consequence and subject to concellation or reinforcement by other such decisions. There is no link between any one man's intention and the summary result of the innumerable decisions. Events are beyond human decisions: History is made behind men's backs.

CHARLES WRIGHT MILLS

The Sociological Imagination


Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.

REINHARD BENDIX

Force


The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day.

BRAD MELTZER

The Book of Fate


Consciousness is, in fact, what makes us human. It is not thinking that sets us apart from most other animals as many believe but our ability to think about ourselves. Most animals are not self-conscious, and that distinction robs them of the volition and purpose that allow us to determine our own fate--and to alter it as we go along. It is consciousness that makes will what it is--a capacity through which we make choices rather than merely responding to biological impulses. With consciousness we have memories that help us make plans and control the future; we can produce the most radical of discontinuities.

MICHAEL LEWIS

Altering Fate


The harder thy fate, the softer thine heart.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


It lies not in our power to love, or hate,
For will in us is over-rul'd by fate.

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Hero and Leander


Fate is like our guardian angel who watches over us when we tend to stray off of our Divine Path and Purpose. It warns us and gives us a friendly and warm nudge of love to steer us back on track and in the right direction.

MARY BOWERS

Before the Last Teardrop Falls


Trying to alter fate is like trying to catch a bullet.

TONNERRE

The Future Affects the Past


Fate comes by our own agency. It belongs to our underlying spiritual values, because it is unattainable without experience of the world, and therefore differs from one person to the next.

STELIOS RAMPHOS

Fate and Ambiguity in Oedipus the King


I think sometimes fate cuts you a break. Like it says, okay, you've had enough of that crap, so it's time you fell into something nice. See what you make out of it.

J. D. ROBB

Interlude in Death


A man's character is his fate.

HERACLITUS


What threatens him, therefore, as his fate, is just his own life made by his deed into a stranger and an enemy.

EDWARD CAIRD

Hegel


Fate is what Heaven imparts.

DAGOBERT D. RUNES

The Dictionary of Philosophy


Fate is the most real thing that I see in my own and anyone else's life. It is not a fiction, but the cruellest of pincers pinching our lives.

ALEKSEI FEDOROVICH LOSEV

The Dialectics of Myth


Fate isn't sentient; it can't make decisions.

RICK CHIANTARETTO

Facade of Shadows


Man makes his fate according to his mind:
The weak, low spirit Fortune makes her slave:
But she's a drudge when hector'd by the brave.
If Fate weave common thread, I'll change the doom,
And with new purple weave a nobler loom.

JOHN DRYDEN

The Conquest of Granada


Thy fate is seeking thee,
Fear not! Fear not!
Nor hither, thither run, with puny strain
Of frenzied fingers on this closèd door,
Or that, to find her. Leave thy worse than vain
And feverish seeking; fret thy soul no more,
Nor vex the heavens with ineffectual cries;
Fate will adjust her perfect harmonies
And weave thee in. There is both time and space
For thy one little thread, it shall have place,
Though it be gold, or may be dull of hue,
Or silken smooth--whatever thou hast spun
Be sure in the great woof shall duly run.

CLARA MARCELLE FARRAR GREENE

"Thy Fate Is Seeking Thee"


When fate is adverse, a blade of grass may become equal to a thunderbolt, and when fate is favorable, a thunderbolt may be like a tuft of grass.

CHEEVER MACKENZIE BROWN

The Triumph of the Goddess