Fatalism Quotes
Fatalism Quote of the day
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice
I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.
It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.
I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
There are cultures that produce different kinds of attitudes, whether it's religion, fatalism, sense of fear, repression, the culture of God and the police minimizes confidence in people.
The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza....
There’s no such thing as probability, " she says, slowly, with minimal movement of her jaw. "Things turn out the way they do.
One of the big lies with sin is that we are already waist-deep and might as well just plunge in.
But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.
It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge—some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.
The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.
Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?
I know that I'm doomed and I'm not going to struggle against my fate. I am only writing this down so that when you do not see me any more you will know that my enemy has finally triumphed.
Lately, I've become sort of a fatalist. Well, that was bound to happen.
The problem with Fate is that no matter how many times you call out to her, she has her own timing that’s irrelevant to whatever anyone else happens to be doing
The award for excessive success is eternal doubt and eventual failure.""So what, it's stupid to even try?""No. It's unwise to hope."- Something Like Stardust
There I was, casually wishing that I could stop existing in the same way you'd want to leave an empty room or mute an unbearably repetitive noise.
I've known one thing for a long time: there's a role in the big machine even for someone who makes fun of it.
I’ve been accused of having a death wish but I think it’s life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, on any terms whatsoever.
La verdad, es que en el fondo soy un fatalista. Si a uno le llega la hora, da lo mismo un Boeing que la puntual maceta que se derrumba sobre uno desde un séptimo piso
Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.