"A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul."
Read quote
3 likes
Fate quotes
Fate
2.5K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Fate
Browse quotes that often appear alongside fate — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Fate quotes (page 37 of 123)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?"
Read quote
3 likes
"If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character."
Read quote
3 likes
"How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy."
Read quote
3 likes
"There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear."
Read quote
3 likes
"Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art."
Read quote
3 likes
"Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood."
Read quote
3 likes
"Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly."
Read quote
3 likes
"This is where the gods play games with the lives of men, on a board which is at one and the same time a simple playing area and the whole world. And Fate always wins."
Read quote
3 likes
"Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice."
Read quote
3 likes
"I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o' fate lashing aroound his netheres wi'out folks telling him he's deid, eh?"
Read quote
3 likes
"Fate can be one mean god at times."
Read quote
3 likes
"SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? “I too cannot be cheated,” snapped Fate."
Read quote
3 likes
"We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo."
Read quote
3 likes
"Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?"
Read quote
3 likes
"I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all these things?"
Read quote
3 likes
"But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it."
Read quote
3 likes
"We became a band that was kind of a big band, kind of a band that quite uncool people listen to, people a lot like me. I've realized that's a much more beautiful fate than the plan I had."
Read quote
3 likes
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."
Read quote
3 likes
"It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles."
Read quote
3 likes