Martin Landau Quotes

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

I'm a fatalist.

I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.

Everything happens for a reason, so you shouldn't get wound up.

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

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.

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.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

Once you realize that everything happens for a reason, attitudes towards matters such as illnesses, or lawsuits, for example, change.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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

In the fabric of human events, one thing leads to another. Every mistake is in a sense the product of all the mistakes that have gone before it, from which fact it derives a sort of cosmic forgiveness; and at the same time every mistake is in a sense the determinant of all the mistakes of the future, from which it derives a sort of cosmic unforgivableness.

I am a great respector of fate.

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.

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.

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.

Anything that happens, happens.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

Maktub" (It is written.)

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

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.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.