Joseph Joubert Quotes

Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

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

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

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

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

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.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

No one can defy fate.

Cause, frankly, the way I see it, you and me? Inevitable.

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

What must be shall be.

Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.

Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.

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

But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.

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

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

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.

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

Yet who shall shut out Fate?