Jeremy Collier Quotes

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

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.

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

I'm a fatalist.

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

What must be shall be.

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

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

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

In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

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?

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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.

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

I believe life is fated - what's going to happen will happen.

Whatever happens, happens. It's all a part of God's plan.