Jules Verne Quotes

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

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

Man blindly works the will of fate.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality.

There's this classic car crash thing about 'Macbeth.' You can just see this car driving at 100 mph towards this brick wall, and you can't do anything about it, and the characters are desperately trying to stop it and can't.

What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't!

Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.

Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that is not what fate is. The world operates as a series of circles that are invisible, for they extend to the upper air. Fate is where these circles cut to earth. Since we cannot see them, do not know their content, and have no sense of their width, it is impossible to predict when these cuts will slice into our reality. When this happens, we call it fate. Fate is not a chance event but one that is inevitable, we are simply blind to its nature and time.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.

Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

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

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is 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 you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.

Yet who shall shut out Fate?