No Fate Quotes

I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis wrote that fate and soul are two names for the same principle.

I mean, yeah, maybe our fate is sometimes fixed and unchangeable, but there are other times when its shaped purely by the actions we take.

I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.

There's always more than one path, and to think otherwise is what resigns you to fate.

If not every one of these people, who were never perfect, is worthy of our love, at least their fate deserves our attention and our memory. They should talk and be talked about.

To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.

Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.

Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.

But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.

Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.

Man is man, and master of his fate.

After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate.

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!

When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.

From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife, what grain will be saved? My son, believe me, nothing remains, Only adult toil, the furrow of fate in the palm. Only toil, Nothing more.

The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.

Fate is what Heaven imparts.

Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.

There is no justice, and great harm, in diminishing the whole array of future opportunity to save a few people now from a regrettable fate.

I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate - unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land.

Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

I definitely believe in fate. And I believe what you put in is what you get in return. That's the way it's worked for me. As for the big picture - there's some sort of plan.

We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions.

It is my fate that some of my questions will never be answered.

And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

Exactly as we might ask God, and do ask God, to change our fate. The difference is that in the story the writer actually replies and in the end even changes his mind.

The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.

A person has to show some spirit -- fate just about never shines on chickenshits.

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

We all know people who have worse fates. What do I have to complain about for Christ's sake? I have a beautiful wife and kids, and all this music, kids are paying my bills.

Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.

Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.

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

The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.

People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.