Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words, a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate. On… — Imre Kertesz Copy Share Image
There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with… — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Fate has carried me Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
“Nothing to fear from a fate that was already yours, then, except, perhaps, that it would never leave you.” — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks… — Charles McGrath Copy Share Image
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“Fate is just a made-up word used to give us hope or absolution. We find hope when we believe bad things happen… — C.M. Owens Copy Share Image
Karma is not fate, for man acts with free will, creating his own destiny. The Vedas tell us, if we sow goodness,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do… — Horace Copy Share Image
It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“Faith then they vowed Fast, unyielding, There each to each In oaths binding. Bliss there was born When Brynhild woke; Yet fate… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Fate determines who comes into our lives Our attitude and actions determine who stays in our lives. — Javan Copy Share Image
When time places obstacle in our path we have two choices either we curse our fate or figure out bravely. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
“Destiny appears to those who are willing to hear and act with honest purpose and good intent. ... Fate, however, discovers those… — Val Edward Simone Copy Share Image
For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man! — Homer Copy Share Image
In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Love is a damage made to the heart, violence, fate thats written, Changeable by distance, Breakable by time...!” — Honey Father Copy Share Image
Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and… — Mary Jo Bang Copy Share Image
“If you make a person believe that his misfortune in this birth is due to his sins in his previous birth, he… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Certain chance occurrences have caused our paths to meet. Destiny has joined our hearts and made our lives complete — Sharlene05 Copy Share Image
I can’t imagine a duller fate than being the best dressed woman in reality. When I want to do something I don’t… — Carole Lombard Copy Share Image
“Warner. A white bird with streaks of gold like a crown atop its head. A fair - skinned boy with gold hair,… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This isn’t ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“But I knew better: No matter where you go, the past floods back. You can try like the dickens, but you can't… — Michael Lee West Copy Share Image
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate. — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil,… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
