Fate – Some Quotes

Edward Gorey on Fate

‘I don’t think anything might have been. What is, is.’

~ Edward Gorey

“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different…”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“My motto is, ‘You can never escape luck’ ”

~ Guillaume Faury/ Times, 24th November 2019

“The fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them.”

~ Cleanthes

“… sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

~ Marilyn Monroe

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

~ Cormac McCarthy / No Country For Old Men

“No man who has chosen well and wisely will ever credit it to fate; the only real fatalist is a man on his way down the pipe.”

~ Hunter Thompson

“Character is destiny.”

~ Heraclitus

“Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following.”

~ William Shakespeare

“There is no such thing as free will. People just have to do what they have to do.”

~ Lucian Freud

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

~ E. M. Forster

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

~ William Shakespeare

Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

~ Epictetus

“Our salvation and our loss is in ourselves.”

~ Epictetus

“Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.”

~ Seneca