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
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
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
“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
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
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence. — David Viscott Copy Share Image
“Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
There are cultures that produce different kinds of attitudes, whether it's religion, fatalism, sense of fear, repression, the culture of God and… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
“I know that I'm doomed and I'm not going to struggle against my fate. I am only writing this down so that… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens… — Charles de Gaulle 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
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
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
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
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to… — William James Copy Share Image
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times… — Gerard K. O'Neill 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
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
“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
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
“When you really want something, when you lust, seek, desire, await, anticipate or expect, when you sit in front of the TV… — Martin Fillmore Clark Copy Share Image
“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if… — Slavoj Žižek 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
“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
“Quinn seemed to have become one of a jaded philosophical society, a group of arcane deviates. Their raison d'etre was a kind… — Thomas Ligotti 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
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
![“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at…” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/604/slavoj-i-ek-1738_2010_t-his-readiness-to-assume-the-guilt-for_2414026.jpg)
