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“To yield is grievous, but the obstinate soul That fights with Fate, is smitten grievously.” Sophocles, Antigone
“A fate is not a punishment.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“O fortune, fortune! All men call thee fickle.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe: what is decreed must be; and be this so!” William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
“It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“it is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best.” Jane Austen, Emma
“it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.” Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address
“She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.” Edith Wharton, House of Mirth
“Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.” Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
“Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.” William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“You shall become the person you are.” Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves that we are underlings.” William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“What must be shall be.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.” William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions;” William Shakespeare, King Lear
“The wand chooses the wizard, remember.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
“It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.” Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
“What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.” William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3
“As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods, They kill us for their sport.” William Shakespeare, King Lear
“Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, and we are for the dark.” William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
“The wheel is come full circle” William Shakespeare, King Lear
“two souls are sometimes created together and . . . in love before they're born.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“I find my zenith doth depend upon a most auspicious star, whose influence if now I court not, but omit, my fortunes will ever after droop.” William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“Then I defy you, stars!” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“I think that this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes.” William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
“O, I am fortune's fool!” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in...” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life?” William Shakespeare, King John
“It's no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?” Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
“Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick

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