Pittacus of Mytilene Quotes

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

There is no armor against fate.

Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

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.

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

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

How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?

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

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

No man can be stronger than his destiny.

Fate will find a way.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Do you know what is going to happen to Bobby? The same thing that happened to Jack.

Even the Gods Can't Change History

No one can defy fate.

There are so many things that could happen and will happen that are out of my control.

Some things you can't control.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.