Fate Quotes

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Morpheus Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.

Matrix, The

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

Epicurus

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley, From the poem "Invictus".

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

Theodore Roethke

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self - Inflicted fate.

Albert Einstein

Immortality - - A fate worse than death.

Edgar A. Shoaff

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Aldous Huxley

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

William McFee

Fate only takes you so far. The rest is up to you.

Unknown

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Albert Camus

While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Albert Einstein

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Thucydides