fatalistic mindset Quotes

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.

I knew I was too late—and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live.

He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.

Broke with nothing to live for and damn ready to die young. I'm the shadow behind the gun, look what I've become.

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.

If people believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances, those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.