Quotes on Fate

It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one.

Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.

For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.

Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.

Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.

A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.

Be active! Take on responsibility! Work for the things you believe in. If you do not, you are surrendering your fate to others.

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially, therefore, it is a mythological figure. . . . In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history. . . .

Commerce changes entirely the fate and genius of nations, by communicating arts and opinions, circulating money, and introducing the materials of luxury; she first opens and polishes the mind, then corrupts and enervates both that and the body.

What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

A person's fate is their own temper.

Therefore the love which us doth bind,_x000D_ _x000D_ But fate so enviously debars,_x000D_ _x000D_ Is the conjunction of the mind,_x000D_ _x000D_ And opposition of the stars.

The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or almost entirely wrong. It was not just the greed of corporate shareholders and the hubris of corporate executives that put the fate of Prince William Sound into one ship; it was also our demand that energy be cheap and plentiful.

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.