Robert E. Howard Quotes

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.

Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.

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

If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.

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

There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

I'm a very big believer in fate.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

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.

I'm a fatalist.

I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes.

I believe life is fated - what's going to happen will happen.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

What once happened will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall combine in the same way.

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

No one can defy fate.

I am a great respector of fate.