J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

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

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

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

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

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling 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 we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

I'm a fatalist.

I'm open to whatever is meant to be, it will be.

I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

I am a great respector of fate.

Some things you can't control.

It's better to accept destiny.

I accept the cards that were dealt to me.

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

Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.

Whatever will be, will be.

Whatever will happen will happen.

Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.