Terry Eagleton Quotes

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

If the world is turning, even the church can’t stop it; if it isn’t turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

There are some things in the world we can't change.

If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

And what do you wish?' he said at last. 'That what should be shall be,' she answered.

I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

There are things we control - but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.

What exists, exists. You cannot change that.

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't!

Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer