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“Fate lies in faith.”

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“It had been a phobia of his for years that someday he would fall into the hands of madmen---in particular, madmen who seemed sane up until the last moment.”

Fate Horror Fears Phobias

Book:Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick

Source: Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick

“Tempting fate, much? If I was Fate, lounging around in stately Fate Mansion drinking Fate Cola and eating a big bowl of Fate Crispies and I heard a dismissive Scots accent saying something like that, I’d be revving up the Fatemobile to teach said Mr Tartanjocks a lesson in humility.”

Funny Fate Humour

Book:Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town

Source: Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town

“...we are all traveling along parallel tracks, tracks that touch for only an instant through the crazed sparks that scatter from under the wheels of an eternally rushing train.”

Life Time History Fate Momentntum

Book:Belladonna

Source: Belladonna

“so it is we rediscover what the Greeks already knew: no better fate can befall a man than never to be born or, once born, to die right off”

Life Death Poetry Fate Birth Poem

Author:António Porto

“I wanted to believe that in the end, the universe would take care of us, and we would end up exactly where we were meant to be.”

Universe Fate Meant To Be Everything Happens For A Reason

Book:A Fire Sparkling

Source: A Fire Sparkling

“...all normal expectations went by the board and one’s daily habits were disrupted by a sense of ever-spreading all-consuming chaos which rendered the future unpredictable, the past unrecallable and ordinary life so haphazard that people simply assumed that whatever could be imagined might come to pass, that if there were only one door in a building it would no longer open, that wheat would grow head downwards into the earth not out of it, and that, since once could only note the symptoms of disintegration, the reasons for it remaining unfathomable and inconceivable, there was nothing anyone could do except to get a tenacious grip on anything that was still tangible…”

Fate Chaos Uncertainty Doom Entropy Existential Dread Loss Of Control

Book:The Melancholy of Resistance

Source: The Melancholy of Resistance

“Independence is counterfeit freedom. We think if we can make all our own choices and do our own thing, we will be free. But the opposite is true. By trying to be independent, we are attempting to take God’s place as the ruler of our lives. We can never succeed at creating happiness because we are the created, not the Creator.”

Inspirational God Freedom Independence Creator

Book:The Prodigal Life: Coming all the way home to God

Source: The Prodigal Life: Coming all the way home to God

“It isn’t a good enough answer, that one group of people can be in charge of the destinies of another group of people and choose whether to exclude them or include them. Human beings have to be more ingenious than this, and more generous. We’ve got to come up with a better answer.”

Humans Destiny Power Fate Society Resources Independence Control

Book:Winter

Source: Winter

“How do any of us know where the strands of our lives are interwoven?”

Destiny Fate Dharma Serendipity Synchronicity Esoteric Kismet

Book:The Fortunicity of Birdie Dalal

Source: The Fortunicity of Birdie Dalal

“Maybe, despite ideology, politics, and history, a genuine catastrophe is always personal bathos at the core. Life can’t be impugned for any failure to trivialize people. You have to take your hat off to life for the techniques at its disposal to strip a man of his significance and empty him totally of his pride.”

Life Pain Fate Humility Defeat Mortality Catastrophe Bathos Trivialization

Book:I Married a Communist

Source: I Married a Communist