Fatalism Quotes

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man’s character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there

I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will...Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom of the will existed. If I wish to live in a civilized community, I must act as if man is a responsible being.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.

Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper.

Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.

It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all.

I don't mind what happens.

I’m ready to die. I hope it’s not too uncomfortable.

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world

In the end they'll judge me anyway, so whatever.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!

A gun I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought. I’d spent my life focusing on hand to hand combat, learning to dodge fangs and powerful hands that could snap my neck. A gun? It was so… well, easy. Should I be insulted? I didn’t know. Did it matter? I didn’t know that either. All I knew in that moment was that I was going to die, regardless.

Don't get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly.

The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character.

When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.

Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.