Alexandre Dumas Quotes

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Swearing's my release. It's the one weapon I have to defend myself against destiny when it elects to strike without pity.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

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.

Fortunately, we are not in control.

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.

Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!

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

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

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

There is no armor against fate.

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

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.

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.

I am a great respector of fate.

I have nothing to do with anything that happens to me.

I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

Some things you can't control.

You can't shape it. You can't change it. Your life is what it is.

It's better to accept destiny.