No Fate Quotes

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Fate is what Heaven imparts.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

Man is man, and master of his fate.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

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 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.

Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.

All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.

I weave the shoes of Sorrow: Soundless shall be the footfall light In all men's ears of Sorrow, Sudden and light.

Fate changes when you change your clothes.

Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.

Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.

Fate is a great accident.

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.

Fate has a way of getting what she wants, no matter how we try to avoid it.

Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative.

Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?

Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.

I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.

Coincidence is just a safe conformist for fate.