Novalis Quotes

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

I believe in fate.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

I'm a very big believer in fate.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

My whole life has been decided by fate.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

I am a great respector of fate.

Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality.

I have always believed that there is no such thing as coincidence, and I have always believed in destiny.

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

I think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

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

I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

I'm a fatalist.