Quotes about Fate
But my Country has in its Wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant Office that ever the invention of Man contrived or his Imagination conceived: and as I can do neither good nor Evil, I must be borne away by Others and meet the common Fate.
— John Adams
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
— John Adams
The good die young — because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.
— John Barrymore
In one word, not to dwell longer on this, give heed, and you will at once perceive that ignorance of Providence is the greatest of all miseries, and the knowledge of it the highest happiness.
— John Calvin
God did not look for a cause outside himself, but predestined us because it was his will to do it.
— John Calvin
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men.
— John Donne
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
— John Donne
Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.
— John Donne
Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.
— John Donne
O how feeble is man's power, That if good fortune fall, Cannot add another hour, Nor a lost hour recall! But come bad chance, And we join to'it our strength, And we teach it art and length, Itself o'er us to'advance.
— John Donne
Send not to know For whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
— John Donne
I sing the progress of a deathless soul, Whom Fate, which God made, but doth not control, Placed in most shapes; all times before the law Yoked us, and when, and since, in this I sing. And the great world to his aged evening, From infant morn, through manly noon I draw.
— John Donne