60 Quotes About Fatalism

Death always triumphs in the end. Over everything: even love.

Duress is not an issue,— for life is a duress.

No one dies halfway through the last act. – Heinrich Ibsen

Lincoln was equidistant from the heresy which makes a person believed that he can do nothing, and the opposite heresy which makes them suppose that he is the master of his own fate.

We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand).

While traditionalism can thwart the planners and molders of industry, education, and society in general, fatalism can so stultify a people that passive resignation becomes the approved norm, and acceptance of undesirable conditions becomes the way of life.

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.

Sometimes you just know what you're doing is the only thing to be doing. That the world is conspiring all around you to make it happen, like, not just giving you permission, but herding you the direction you need to go, giving you secret nods and obvious hand signals, and getting everything out of the way so you have the clearest path possible.

... fatalism: namely, that it is a species of fear — the fear that your fate is in your own hands, but that your hands are weak.