Jonathan Lethem Quotes

Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.

What must be shall be.

Everything that has happened had to happen. Everything that must happen cannot be stopped.

I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.

No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.

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

We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

Intimates are predestined.

When it's your time, it is your time.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Fate will find a way.

As certain as death and taxes.

Even the Gods Can't Change History

What exists, exists. You cannot change that.

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

Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

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

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

That what will come, and must come, shall come well.

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

This door's wide-open now. It's going to happen whether you like it or not.