Steven Erikson Quotes

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

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

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

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.

Fate is written in the face.

If nothing else I have become an expert on fate.

Every crime, even the most atrocious, may be justified.

Even the gods cannot strive against necessity.

No one can defy fate.

I am a great respector of fate.

I believe in fate.

I always believe in destiny.

Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.

It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.

Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don’t create it. You don’t define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.

No one can escape his destiny.

The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.