T. S. Eliot Quotes

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

I'm not a fatalist; even if I were, what could I do about it?

Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger.

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

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.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

I'm a fatalist.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

Some things you can't control.

It's better to accept destiny.

I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.

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.

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate

It's just the way things are." she shrugged. "It's no one's fault." "Or everyone's.

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.