Best Fatalism Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.”

Humans Dream Spirit Comfort Sentences Absurd Obedience American Dream Consumerism Human Spirit Garage Drudgery Fatalism Death Sentence Trinkets Garage Sale

Author:Zoltan Istvan

“Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice”

Writing Voice Mines Everyday Contemporary Veins Parallels Surrealism Writing Music Fatalism

Author:Greil Marcus

“Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.”

Humans Moments Dies Grows Fire Our Lives Taste Horror Universal Favors Storytelling Weather Reports Stoicism Impatient Attainment Rust Stoic Tornadoes Fatalism Ecclesiastes

Author:Michael Chabon

“Theres nothing wrong with making the best of ones declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that were seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.”

Years Doe Problem Courses Findings Enormous Range Therapy Annoying Apathy Ageing Fatalism

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man is imperfection. Imperfection and blazing contradictions-between mixed good and evil, altruism and selfishness, cooperativeness and combativeness, optimism and fatalism, affirmation and negation.”

Men Needs Evil Perfection Optimism Essence Species Selfishness Contradiction Good And Evil Imperfection Altruism Affirmation Blazing Negation Fatalism

Book:Who Speaks for Man?

Source: Who Speaks for Man?

“The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.”

Self Christian Joy Spirit Suffering Opportunity Given Attitude Trouble Sorrow Difficulty Regard Sacred Reactions Pity Resentment Crowns Thorns Self Pity Fatalism Given Opportunity

Author:James Stewart

“When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and usually resort to cheap psychology. A sense of fatalism is the only form of relief left.”

People Helping Form Dies Left Psychology Come Up Relief Interpretation Resorts Carried Away Fatalism

Author:Francesca Marciano

“The Greek idea of fate is moira, which means "portion." Fate rules a portion of your life. But there is more to life than just fate. There is also genetics, environment, economics, and so on. So it's not all written in the book before you get here, such that you don't have to do anything. That's fatalism.”

Mean Book Ideas Environment Fate Written Economics Greek Portions Genetics More To Life Fatalism

Author:James Hillman

“There are cultures that produce different kinds of attitudes, whether it's religion, fatalism, sense of fear, repression, the culture of God and the police minimizes confidence in people.”

People Kind Different Culture Attitude Produce Police Different Kinds Repression Fatalism

Author:Vijay Prashad

“I think fatalism and redemption are themes that help a reader organize and eventually "own" a story or character. Writing them, I just want them to be real, and in reality I don't think events are thematic until in retrospect, if ever.”

Thinking Writing Real Character Helping Reality Redemption Being Real Organize Fatalism

Author:Linden MacIntyre

“Until the early 90s, when I was working on a project about the idea of free will in American philosophy. I knew that Lincoln had had something to say about "necessity" and "fatalism," and so I began writing him into the book. In fact, Lincoln took over. I wrote instead 'Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President,' in 1999, and I've splitting rails with Mr. Lincoln ever since. If there's a twelve-step process for this somewhere, I haven't found it yet.”

Writing Book Philosophy President Free Will Rail Fatalism

Author:Allen C. Guelzo

“Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.”

Men Way Literature Accepting Inevitable Lazy Laziness Resignation Fatalism Lazy Man

Author:Natalie Clifford Barney

“Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.”

People Believe Action Providence Criminal Mind Fatalism

Author:David Viscott

“Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.”

Should Rich Britain Our Society Apathy Radicalism Fatalism

Author:Geoff Mulgan

“It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation.”

Happens Force Justice Capable Weakness Transformed Powerless Accommodations Announcing Fatalism

Book:Pedagogy of the Heart

Source: Pedagogy of the Heart

“[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.”

Way Mind Wells Has Beens I Can Soul Destiny Magic Balance Curious Dreamer Idealism Cynic Diabolical Fatalism

Author:Anais Nin

“The past doesn't change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the whole. Take away one piece, no matter how small, and the whole changes. Whether it's optimism, pessimism or fatalism, I don't spend my time wishing for the past to be different so present would be different, too. I control my future with what I choose now.”

Thinking Different Matter Whole Would Be Past Wish Pieces Optimism Add My Time Pessimism Good And Bad My Future One Piece Fatalism

Author:Megan Hart

“Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.”

Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

“History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.”

Men Doe Moments Freedom Liberty Teach Break Handful Free Man Break Through Determinism Fatalism Great Freedom New Roads

Author:Charles de Gaulle

“They have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as defense minister, or Mahatma Gandhi as minister of health, education, and welfare The Hindu and Buddhist idea of karma and the Muslim idea of kismet, or fate condemn the poor and the disabled to their suffering. ... It's the will of Allah. These beliefs are nothing but abject fatalism, and they would devastate the social gains this nation has made if they were ever put into practice.”

“I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.”

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Book:The Promise of American Life

Source: The Promise of American Life

“Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism, suffering is meaningful. There is a purpose to it, and if faced rightly, it can drive us like a nail deep into the love of God and into more stability and spiritual power than you can imagine.”

Source: Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

“Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings?”

Source: Waterland

“I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.”

Thinking Way Believe Kind Poor Don't Believe Excuse Pious Fatalism

Author:Margaret Culkin Banning

“I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.”

Felt Loss Shame Connected Awful Recognition Outcomes Endeavor Irresistible Dullness Disintegration Fatalism Mending

Book:Netherland

Source: Netherland

“To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.”

Life Art Shows Gay Live Life Courageous Cheerful Resignation Be Courageous Art Of Living Fatalism Boisterous

Author:Jean de La Fontaine

“Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.”

Social Party Roles Democracy Revolutionary Passive Fatalism Social Democracy

Author:Karl Liebknecht

“Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.”

Thinking Wells School Atheism Dangerous Danger Roots Criticism Materialism Superstitions Skepticism Idealism Fanaticism Free Thinking Fatalism

Book:Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason

Source: Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason

“Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power that comes from within. Those who submit to the divine essence of life will live in unperturbed tranquility and peace even when the whole wide world goes through turbulence after turbulence.”

World Mean Doe Whole Divine Weak Essence Opposites Wide Submit Passive Tranquility Submission Turbulence Essence Of Life Fatalism True Power Capitulation

Author:Elif Safak

“The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.”

Character Past News Melancholy Greedy Mixtures Fatalism Times Past

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times greater than we could ever obtain from our beleaguered Earth. As expressed very beautifully in the language of House Concurrent Resolution 451, 'This tiny Earth is not humanity's prison, is not a closed and dwindling resource, but is in fact only part of a vast system rich in opportunities...'”

Ifs Facts Earth Humanity Opportunity House Language Growth Space Rich Greater Limits Resources Prison Tiny Alternatives Atmosphere Reasonable Resolution Very Beautiful Fatalism

Author:Gerard K. O'Neill