Edward St Aubyn Quotes

Man is the creature of circumstances.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

I'm a fatalist.

I believe life is fated - what's going to happen will happen.

Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.

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.

I'm a very big believer in fate.

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

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road

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

I believe in fate.

I believe if you are destined to do something, things will definitely happen.

There's no such thing as accidents.

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

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

“It is Fate that I am here,” persisted George. “But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”

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

So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

Luck cannot change birth.

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

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.

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