I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
Fate Quotes
Shakespeare leads again, with Homer, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Bulwer-Lytton and Dryden following. Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) asks whether helpless man must roll darkling down the torrent of his fate, and Shelley’s Song to the Men of England (1819) turns the idea into a complaint about labour: the seed ye sow another reaps. Longfellow’s lines from 1842 are the gentler pick, about no one being so accursed by fate that no heart responds to his.
Three entries are flagged misattributed: a sentence of Matthew Arnold’s about things being what they are and consequences being what they will be, a line about dying too well known and still unknown to oneself credited to Francis Bacon, and a remark on providence and final causes credited to Alexander Pope.
Hoddan angrily suspected fate and chance of plain conspiracy against him.
The concept of original sin gives us a penetrating insight into human destiny.
Present action, though futile, is preferable to passive acceptance of such a fate as awaits us.
Is it not unsettling to consider the blind unlikelihoods that shape one’s fate?
Fate is not above using inconsiderable details for her obscure purpose.
Defeat is a common fate of a soldier and there is nothing to be ashamed of in it.
And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.