Mason Cooley Quotes

Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

The mill of the gods grinds slowly but it grinds exceeding, small

When karma lands, it lands hard.

History has a Nemesis for every sin.

Every offense is avenged on earth.

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.

The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown.

Evil gains work their punishment.

I feel like God gives you what you deserve. Whatever that time is, you get what you deserve.

I believe in karma.

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Wickedness is its own punishment.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.