60 Quotes About Fatalism

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Is Fate really fixed? Or can it change?

Each and every event was unavoidable, and was avoidable only in theory. Even my realizing and my saying that, and your reading or hearing, and your agreeing or disagreeing with that.

Fatalism says: This is the life you've chosen. Freedom says: You can change your life.

In none of her lives will she be brilliant or famous or content. Her mediocrity will hound her through a kaleidoscope of futures.

Seriously, what is the source of our thoughts? How do artists create art? How do writers write? What is it that is doing the creating?

Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?