Fatalism Quotes
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Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it.
— Ravi Zacharias
Fatalism is born of the fear of failure, for we all believe that we carry success in our own hands, and we suspect that our hands are weak.
— Joseph Conrad
Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like.
— Raheel Farooq
The author says people are guilty of wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.
— T.H. White
in contrast to a garment of praise, guilt is the uniform. It's a straitjacket called fatalism.
— Terry Law
It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.
— Honore De Balzac
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
— Peter Ackroyd
There I was, casually wishing that I could stop existing in the same way you'd want to leave an empty room or mute an unbearably repetitive noise.
— Allie Brosh
They want me to do something, and I'll do it, or I won't do it, and it'll work or not, and I'll survive or not.
— Jo Walton
I've known one thing for a long time: there's a role in the big machine even for someone who makes fun of it.
— Christa Wolf
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
— Charles De Gaulle
To accept a little death is worse than death itself.
— Frank Herbert
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
— George Bernard Shaw
There's no such thing as probability," she says, slowly, with minimal movement of her jaw. "Things turn out the way they do.
— Johnny Rich
Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
— Ferdinand Marcos
It's never too late for fatalism.
— Zachary Thomas Dodson
It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge - some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The knowledge of His sovereignty is meant to be an encouragement to pray, not an excuse to lapse into a sort of pious fatalism.
— Jerry Bridges
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.
— Dave Eggers
Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.
— Geoff Mulgan
One of the big lies with sin is that we are already waist-deep and might as well just plunge in.
— Matt Chandler
I believe in fatalism, the positive one.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
I've been accused of having a death wish but I think it's life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, on any terms whatsoever.
— Tennessee Williams
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
— David Viscott
The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza ...
— Violet Trefusis
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
— Karl Liebknecht
The future is certain. It is just not known.
— Johnny Rich
Mass education, because it produces hosts of badly educated people liberated from fatalism, will contribute to instability (p. 123).
— Robert D. Kaplan