Fatalism Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Fatalism in history is inevitable for the explanation of senseless phenomena (that is, those whose sense we do not understand).”

— Leo Tolstoy

“When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and…

— Francesca Marciano

“Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or growth. Fatalism…

— James Hillman

“Death is a concept for fatalists and fools. And dead people.”

— Martin Cosgrove

“Death should not be viewed as a medical failure but as a natural conclusion to life.”

— Christine Cowgill

“The problem is that most people, most of the time, are desperate to believe ridiculous and divisive ideas for patently emotional reasons,and while rarely…

— Sam Harris

“What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.”

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“However, often when fatal things are happening, you don't know at the time that they're fatal. You get an inkling that they're Not Good,…

— Marian Keyes

“It may be laid down broadly that irrationalism, i.e. disbelief in objective fact, arises almost always from the desire to assert something for which…

— Bertrand Russell

Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life…

— William James

“There is no such thing as a historical fatality; there is only a historical nemesis which punishes those who have hesitated to act when…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

— Natalie Clifford Barney