V. S. Naipaul Quotes

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

In the world we have entered there will be many things that we can do nothing about. We should accept this state of affairs and incidentally, be grateful for it.

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.

Life is going to happen to you no matter what weight you are, no matter how famous you are, no matter how much money you have in the bank. No one gets a free pass.

You realize there are things you can't control. You can't control a lot of the stuff that happens in your life.

You can't. You just have to.

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

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

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.

If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren’t reasons behind the terrible things that go on. I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help? I lie awake and wonder why I don’t have parents and wonder what will become of my brother and me. But when the morning comes, I realize that there’s nothing to be done about what has already happened. I can only get up and do my chores and push through the day and find the good in it.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

What can't be helped must be endured.

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.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

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.

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

It’s just life. You can’t beat life.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

I don't expect the sun to be always shining, or even want that to happen.