Voltaire 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.

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

I'm a fatalist.

I am a great respector of fate.

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.

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.

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.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

It's better to accept destiny.

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

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

I'm not a fatalist; even if I were, what could I do about it?

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

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.

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted

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.

For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

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.

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.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

If nothing else I have become an expert on fate.

A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts

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.

Some things you can't control.