Frank Herbert Quotes

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

I'm a fatalist.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.

I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.

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

I believe in fate.

Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.

If something were brought about without an antecedent cause, it would be untrue that all things come about through fate. But if it is plausible that all events have an antecedent cause, what ground can be offered for not conceding that all things come about through fate?

Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.

Our actions are preordained by the Fox God's prophecy.

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.

This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders.

Nothing in this world happens by chance

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen