Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
“Fatalism in history is inevitable for the explanation of senseless phenomena (that is, those whose sense we do not understand).” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Every one should have their hands told once a month so as to know what not to do. Of course, one does… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.” — T.H. White Copy Share Image
It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“there is a danger inherent in the teaching...that man is nothing but the result of biological, psychological and sociological conditions, or the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Theres nothing wrong with making the best of ones declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that were… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
“And I wonder if any of the road-kill creatures actually wanted to die and threw themselves beneath the speeding wheels. A lethargic… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“I found the whole modern world talking scientific fatalism; saying that everything is as it must always have been, being unfolded without… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful —… — Gai Eaton Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi Copy Share Image
they have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“It ended by my almost believing (perhaps actually believing) that this was perhaps my normal condition. But at first, in the beginning,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The difference between the Russian character and the Western is that we Russians have learned to live our days in the full… — Edward Docx Copy Share Image
“The villagers were speeding up the circling of events because she was too shortsighted to see that her infidelity had already harmed… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
“First, all I could see was this beautiful face, this beautiful girl's face; like a white, slightly luminous mask, swimming detachedly against… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
God is a fantasy and fatalism, which we depend on other life forms different from truth and reality are — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm sure there's some sort of cynicism or fatalism in Ireland and England. We are fatalistic here, and sometimes we need to… — Brian Gleeson Copy Share Image
I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
“Mass education, because it produces hosts of badly educated people liberated from fatalism, will contribute to instability (p. 123).” — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I think fatalism and redemption are themes that help a reader organize and eventually "own" a story or character. Writing them, I… — Linden MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“The pervasive attitude of fatalism among Indians of all classes was yet another factor affecting the spirit of Indian armies—victory and defeat… — Abraham Eraly Copy Share Image
Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“Being sick is itself a kind of ressentiment. — Against this the invalid has only one great means of cure — I… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The past doesn't change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
“When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible… — Francesca Marciano Copy Share Image
I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“While traditionalism can thwart the planners and molders of industry, education, and society in general, fatalism can so stultify a people that… — Jack E. Weller Copy Share Image
“He is a curious avatar. Passion and pain, made manifest. The dreams he had are gone. All that is left is this… — Grant Smuts Copy Share Image