Fate Quotes

Camus, Albert
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.


Confucius
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.


Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Nagarjuna
This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life Depends upon one's actions. -- Nagarjuna


Pope, Alexander
But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state?