Best fate & evil Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“All I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.... The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are the most humorless, though in the movies they frequently get some of the best lines.”

People Should Problem Evil Asks Lines Fate Degrees Findings Amusing Bipolar Evil People

Book:The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd

Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd

“Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct the Storm The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.”

People Men War Country States Might Evil United United States Fate Ought Direct Train Storm Civil War Wicked Ambitious Reign Doom Gallows Ambitious Man

Author:Andrew Jackson

“Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.”

“We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.”

Evil Fate Spinning Undone

Book:Psychology: The Briefer Course

Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course

“The daimonic refers to the power of nature rather than the superego, and is beyond good and evil. Nor is it man's 'recall to himself' as Heidegger and later Fromm have argued, for its source lies in those realms where the self is rooted in natural forces which go beyond the self and are felt as the grasp of fate upon us. The daimonic arises from the ground of being rather than the self as such.”

Men Self Lying Evil Force Felt Natural Fate Source Arise Realms Good And Evil Rooted Recalls Heidegger Power Of Nature Beyond Good And Evil Fromm Superego

Book:Love and will

Source: Love and will

“It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.”

Men Inspirational Evil Fear Fate Worst Strange Strangeness

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the nature of man and the universe, God and the soul, fate and providence, suffering, evil and destiny. Great poetry always has, like the higher religion, a metaphysical content. It deals with the same august issues, experiences and conceptions as metaphysics or first philosophy.”

Source: The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy

“Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.”

Evil Poor Enemy Fate Mines Shadow Pity Delusion Phantoms Fleeing

Author:Sophocles

“Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight.”

Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

“In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts. It is our ingenuity, rather than our animal nature, that has given our fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate.”

World Humanity Evil Given Animal Fate Exercise Creatures Responsible Fellows Seeking Bitter Organisms Ingenuity

Author:Ernest Becker

“Karma is not fate, for man acts with free will, creating his own destiny. The Vedas tell us, if we sow goodness, we will reap goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Karma refers to the totality of our actions and their concomitant reactions in this and previous lives, all of which determines our future.”

Ifs Men Action Evil Destiny Fate Goodness Creating Determine Karma Reactions Free Will Our Future Our Actions Reap Totality Vedas Previous Life

Book:Dancing with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism

Source: Dancing with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism

“It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.”

Hard Law Evil Fate Extremes

Author:Johann Gottfried Herder

“I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.”

Evil Fate Strength Pure Responsible Blessed Contrary Rejects

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil.”

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

“Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...”

Way Evil Force Prayer Fate Mankind Century Demon Good Work Doom Fasting Barrels Shotguns

Author:Terry Pratchett

“An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.”

Feels Writing I Can Play Use Hands Able Certain Evil Too Much Fate Trouble Weak Fingers One Time Composition Deprived

Book:The Letters of Robert Schumann

Source: The Letters of Robert Schumann

“My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.”

Knows Men Believe Evil Literature Force Know How Fate Journey Divine My Friends Fairs Blow Mortals Cheer Flood Voyages

Author:Aeschylus

“I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.”

People Ifs World I Can Seems Moving Dies Fall Evil Fate Falling In Love Don't Fall In Love

Book:Where Angels Fear to Tread

Source: Where Angels Fear to Tread

“If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.”

People Ifs Knows World Want Whole Light Evil Accepting Darkness Wife Fate Easier Daughter Deserve Tragedy Deny Whole World Certainty Good People Traps Justified Unbearable Wife And Daughter

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.”

May Book Beautiful Suffering Evil Common Fate Possibility Protect Graves Grants Shields Illumination Possibility Of Change

Author:Alberto Manguel

“If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its own sake, but only to avoid an early demise. No one would speak out against evil because of his own courageous soul, but only to live another day. The right to choose is man's great gift, but one thing is not his to choose--the time and means of death.”

Ifs Men Mean Soul Choices Evil Speak Fate One Thing Sake Courageous Speaks Out Another Day Demise Great Gifts Untimely Death

Author:Martine Leavitt

“For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love; the passionate search for truth other than our own. With longing; the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on.”

“There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.”

Ifs Men World Hands Pain Lying Evil Waiting Fate Mankind Filled Misery Corners Noise Folly Upper Hand Wait For Him Misery And Pain

Book:Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

“Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.”

May Might Evil Stars Fate Bears Lays Shining Crave Recompense Antonio Malignancy

Book:Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

Source: Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

“To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.”

Mind Stills Two Evil Fate Chosen Great Minds Two Evils

Book:The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)

Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)

“And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.”

Way Littles Evil Simple Fate Quiet Expected Countryside Great Ones Frodo Baggins Two Towers Shire

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.”

Littles Character Evil Virtue Fate Vices Scar Smallest Strict Strokes Spinning Undone

Author:William James

“This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It surmounts evil,' he told me, 'keeps doom at bay.'”

Ifs Giving Evil Fate Magic Band Doom

Book:The Sacred Band

Source: The Sacred Band

“The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.”

May Spirit Suffering Evil Destiny Fate Higher Rivers Overcoming Stronger Surprise Sunlight Makes You Stronger

Author:Ben Okri

“Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for patterns, systems, and authorities. If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate--in short, the emancipation from fear--then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render.”

Source: EPZ Eclipse of Reason

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