Accidents Quote by Ian Mcewan

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

— Democritus

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.

— Anonymous

“Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fates mostly but the echo of his character.”

— John Green

Diminish the influence of fate

— Darin Strauss

“He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for…

— Saul Bellow

“Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“Once a fate cannot be avoided, however horrible it might be, it loses something of its powers of dread”

— Galen Beckett

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events…

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

— Horace Bushnell

“Fate could be viewed as sadistic at times.”

— Steven Redhead

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

— Thomas Hardy

“His was the coiled, urgent restlessness of a person who believed that fate had mistakenly allotted him a place below his true destiny.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie