Hannah Arendt Quotes

We like to believe we are in control of our destinies, even though we never are and we never have been.

We are the playthings of the gods.

Fate is for losers.

I'm a fatalist.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

Men are not yet ready to shape their own destinies, to control and direct world events, of which -- instead -- they become the victims.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road

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

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.

No victor believes in chance.

If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

Fate does not seek our consent.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

Who can control his fate?

...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.

Fate does not always seek our consent.

The powerless worship Luck and Fate.

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.