Top 78 Against Fate Quotes
#2. Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.
Honore De Balzac
#3. The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armor against Fate.
Death lays his icy hand on kings ...
James Shirley
#4. You glowed in the cool moonlight last night, when you mutinied against fate, and claimed your rank as my equal.
Charlotte Bronte
#6. I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate
Robert Graves
#8. You imagine that there's no use struggling against fate, that she will always have her way, no matter what we do. But don't you see? It's our very efforts to cheat fate, or to change it, that make things come to pass in the way they were meant to.
Gary L. Blackwood
#10. We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
Andre Malraux
#12. Things take care of themselves as long as you trust and don't try to control too much. Things will happen. Things tend to occur. Why resist what's inevitable? That's like swimming against the current, salmon notwithstanding. Go with the flow, you know? Glide with the glow, man. It's easier.
Tony Vigorito
#13. What matters most, is not how my end happens, or if it happens now. What I care about in this instant, is that she knows how much I love her - that I lived long enough to have her love me back.
Emm Cole
#14. The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.
D.H. Lawrence
#15. No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune ... There is a liberating law in the universe, and you can become the highest of the high, wisest of the wise.
Uell Stanley Andersen
#16. We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.
Erica Jong
#17. It is true fortitude to stand firm against
All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
In fear to suffer more calamity.
Philip Massinger
#18. Luck, normalcy, fate ... none of those seemed to be on our side. Our very being together went against all the odds. All I knew was that something good had begun. A flame had been lit. And the whole universe was watching to see if it would be blown out.
All I could do was hold my breath. And wait.
Amy Plum
#19. Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive
Cassandra Clare
#20. Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.
Mary Beard
#21. The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
Euripides
#22. there is no such thing as chance. All is either a trial, or a punishment, or a reward, or a foresight. Remember the fisherman, who thought himself the most wretched of mankind. Oromazes sent thee to change his fate. Cease then, frail mortal, to dispute against what thou oughtest to adore." "But,
Voltaire
#23. Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it's born with us the day that we are born.
Homer
#24. Malraux says art is our rebellion against man's fate.
La condition humaine is what I have never accepted. That is why I tried to create my own world.
Anais Nin
#25. Relate to a life situation in the deepest sense: not from the standpoint of the ego that bemoans its fate and rebels against it, but from... the greater inner law that has left behind its small birth, the narrow realm of personal outlook, for the sake of renewal and rebirth.
Max Zeller
#26. We were nothing more than actions to reactions - helpless against our own fate. It's true. I react and others pay.
Katie McGarry
#27. A gamble. Everything was a damn gamble. Betting against luck and the Fates, again and again, and again. She kept walking, waiting for the bullet.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#28. Against my will, my fate,
A throne unsettled, and an infant state,
Bid me defend my realms with all my pow'rs, And guard with these severities my shores.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#29. In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.
Horst Koehler
#30. Trapped, cutting herself against the jagged edges of her emotions, she was a prisoner of her own spirit.
Leigh Hershkovich
#31. I know that I'm doomed and I'm not going to struggle against my fate. I am only writing this down so that when you do not see me any more you will know that my enemy has finally triumphed.
Anna Kavan
#32. Many will rant and rave against the garment fate has woven for them, but they pick it up and don it all the same, and most wear it to the end of their days. You ... you would rather go naked into the storm.
Robin Hobb
#33. Xerxes: It isn't wise to stand against me, Leonidas. Imagine what horrible fate awaits my enemies when I would gladly kill any of my own men for victory.
King Leonidas: And I would die for any one of mine.
Frank Miller
#34. Being a woman is a fate Sabina did not choose. What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure. Sabina believed that she had to assume to correct attitude to her unchosen faith. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as taking pride in it.
Milan Kundera
#35. The beige linoleum floor turned into the ocean, crashed and crashed against Lotto's shins. He sat down. How swiftly things spun. Two minutes ago he'd been a kid, thinking about his nintendo system, worried about asymptotes and signs. Now he was, heavy, adult.
Lauren Groff
#37. Imagine a different world, one in which people do not spend an inordinate amount of energy fuming against their fate each time they make a mistake ... though we all agree that to err is human, each of us individually believes that he or she is the exception ... Make a mistake? Not on my watch!
Veronique Vienne
#38. The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.
Tarjei Vesaas
#39. It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate.
Mark Zandi
#40. It was the fate of all reforms that they turned against the reformers.
Daniel Abraham
#42. What's fate to you, opal? she asks.
opal leans back, too. oh, lots of things. lots and lots of things all pushed up against each other that makes something else happen. so much pushing it just can't happen any other way - unless you push back to make it not.
Mary E. Pearson
#43. Like Artemis and Orion, fate was working against us, and we couldn't be together in this life. But he will forever be immortalized in my heart.
A. Zavarelli
#44. For the very young to rail against their own bitter fate, they must draw upon all their strength and spirit. That is why they are so steadfast.
Miyuki Miyabe
#45. It's not a threat. It's simply fact. He is Greek and of a bloodline
nearly as old as yours. He is required to be what he was made to be
whether he wishes it or not. He swims against the current, Ari. He thinks
he can outrun his fate. He cannot. No one can.
Victoria Escobar
#46. But I can't pretend I don't know how little the goodwill of even the best surgeon can accomplish against the workings of fate. A man's hands are rooted firmly in the earth, Angela. God, if he exists, is behind our backs.
Margaret Mazzantini
#47. She rebelled against the emptiness and meaninglessness of her life. She hoped that when Bruce was her age he too would rebel if he found his life intolerable. She hoped he would want to do something about it; anything was better than to submit to your fate supinely.
Emilie Loring
#48. One body, one breath, one love, united against any force that would tear them apart. Defiant in the face of time, fate, death, destiny.
Shelly Thacker
#49. As a Muslim, I believe in the concept of fate, that there are certain things out of my control. Thus, what chance do I have to stand against kismet?
Aishah Madadiy
#50. Our combined beauty," Callie says seriously, hand pressed against her chest, "was too much for even a god to bear all at once."
Lyons, Heather (2013-11-17). A Matter of Heart (Fate Series Book 2) (p. 128). Cerulean Books. Kindle Edition.
Heather Lyons
#51. Fate could twist you around and around if you weren't careful. Just when you thought you knew where you were headed, you'd wind up in the opposite direction, or flattened against a wall.
Alice Hoffman
#52. One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives - transitoriness and oblivion.
Stefan Zweig
#53. So may you come into the true Kingdom of Culture ... and may you be armed against the worst blows that fate can deal you in this world.
George Hamlin Fitch
#54. Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.
Peter Kreeft
#55. If you could have stopped it, or if you could have escaped but you didn't, then you would have lost my respect. But you did everything you could, and when you could do no more, you made peace with your fate, and you didn't rail needlessly against it. That is wisdom, not weakness.
Christopher Paolini
#56. I gave up the unequal struggle against what appeared to be in my fate, indeed, I welcomed it with more affection. As one embraces a foe one can't defeat and I felt liberated.
Alberto Moravia
#57. The Neimoidian gave a long, gurgling sigh. You're right, Des. The decision is made. Grim fate and ill fortune have conspired against you. It's not like sabacc; you can't fold a bad hand. In life you just play the cards you're dealt.
Drew Karpyshyn
#58. It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
Henry James
#59. Rage against the world, if you like, but quietly, or the Guardians will awake.
Mason Cooley
#60. For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.
Albert Einstein
#61. Some women, he thought, had the power to turn a man in the opposite direction from what he wanted. It seemed his fate to run up against them. And, damn it, to care.
Nora Roberts
#62. The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the details.That's how we rebel against destiny, how we make our mark. What will you choose to do?
Rick Riordan
#63. In retrospect, I would have to recommend against epiphanies. They are difficult on an emotional level, and they also sometimes move you to foolish and inopportune acts, which was what happened in my case.
Peter David
#64. What were you doing fighting with me at Kirov, knowing all this was stacked against us?
Raging against my fate.
Paullina Simons
#65. Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.
Guy Vanderhaeghe
#66. Then the voice in my head said
WHETHER YOU LOVE WHAT YOU LOVE
OR LIVE IN DIVIDED CEASELESS
REVOLT AGAINST IT
WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE
Frank Bidart
#67. The War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards consisted in battles which, however formidable and devastating, were but desperate and vain appeals against the decision of Fate.
Winston S. Churchill
#68. It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.
Albert Einstein
#69. Atom, you want to flee the sun?
Madman, give up!
You're a jar; fate's a stone-
kick against it, and you'l waste your wine.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#70. ...There were no measures that truly protected against disaster; you simply held on to what mattered and hoped that you found your way to the other side.
Kevin Wilson
#71. You know, sometimes even when two people love each other the universe still conspires against them, forces them apart.
Sarah Noffke
#72. While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for the fate of the British Empire.
John Burgoyne
#73. I'd finally in up in jail for a murder I really did commit. Amazing how fate can work against us sometimes. We like the think we're the center of the Solar System, everything revolving around. More likely, we're the center of the vortex when we flush the toilet.
Victor Gischler
#74. The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.
Thomas Sowell
#75. The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.
Martha Gellhorn
#76. If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.
Gloria Steinem
#77. But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was ... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been.
Will Arnett
#78. I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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