China Mieville Quotes

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

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.

How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?

You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.

I'm a very big believer in fate.

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.

I've always been obsessed about how people choose - or are destined - for the paths they take.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

I'm not one of those New Age types that believe 'it's all meant to be' and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road

Chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.

I believe there's fate, and then you have personal choice. I believe we have the ability to change our fate.

I have always believed that there is no such thing as coincidence, and I have always believed in destiny.

I believe in fate.

We're on some path that's set since we're born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but I still don't believe in my fate.

If I believed in fate I'd be very curious why I picked the name Silver Jews.

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.