Hanif Kureishi Quotes

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.

With situations that you have no power over, there is no point in worrying about one thing or another. Why think about things that you can't control?

Some things you can't control.

There are things that are not in your control and you will never be able to control them. You've got to accept that very quickly.

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

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

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it.

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

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.

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

It's better to accept destiny.

There's just some things you can't change.

You can't. You just have to.

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.

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

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

Wish that everything should come about just as it does.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway

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.