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Immortality -- a fate worse than death.

Edgar A. Shoaff

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Albert Camus
French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960)

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC)

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC)

I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
exaltation in the changing of the Muses;
I have been versed in the reasonings of men;
but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC)

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Thucydides
Greek historian (471 BC - 400 BC)

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
German philosopher (1724 - 1804)

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.

Joni Mitchell, song-The Last Time I Saw Richard

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

Leonid Brezhnev

Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live.

Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech to South African young people
US Democratic politician (1925 - 1968)

Be still sad heart and cease repining;
Behind the clouds the sun is shining,
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life a little rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.

Longfellow

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

William McFee

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi
US author (1891 - 1980)

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Wilhelm von Humboldt
German diplomat & philologist (1767 - 1835)

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

Epicurus
Greek philosopher (341 BC - 270 BC)

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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