Cass Elliot Quotes

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

We cannot make great historical events, but must adapt ourselves to the natural course of things and limit ourselves to securing what is already ripe.

Everything's happened to me. Nothing can happen to me now.

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.

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

I'm a fatalist.

Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.

I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.

It's better to accept destiny.

You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.

I don't fear death. If it happens, it was meant to happen.

I accept the cards that were dealt to me.

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

What must be shall be.

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

That what will come, and must come, shall come well.

Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.

Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

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 is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.

Everything that's happening to you, is what's suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.

But it was equally clear to her that this was her fate, that she had called its name and it had come to her, and she could do nothing now but own it.