Fate Quotes

2346 Fate quotes by 1440 unique authors

It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into… — Eric Hoffer
What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it… — Thomas Hood
Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than… — Samuel Johnson
London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the… — Samuel Johnson
Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the smiles and frowns of fate… — John Armstrong
The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate… — George Santayana
Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath… — Robert Burns
Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings. — John Dryden
Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace. — John Dryden
The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate. — Wallace Stevens
Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes… — William Cowper
The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot. — Henry Fielding
And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. — Alexander Pope
They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises… — Rainer Maria Rilke
These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes… — Rebecca Harding Davis
O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the… — Mortimer Collins
The heart is its own Fate. — Philip James Bailey
We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings... — Charles W. Chesnutt
No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Fate and necessity are unconquerable. — Joseph Joubert
Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous. — Booth Tarkington
Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For… — John Clare
Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody. — Natalia Ginzburg
Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the… — Ebenezer Elliott
Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are… — Maxwell Maltz

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