“Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.” MenHeartDoeStillsHomeFateHe ManLimitsWoundsBreastsDoomDecree Book:The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses Source: The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses
“It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited for purposes which could not be recognized at the time, and that I did not see that there is a limit set even for a soldier's performance to his duty. That is my fate.” GivingPurposeRealizingFateDutyLimitsPerformancesSoldierLoyaltyObedienceTragic Author:Wilhelm Keitel
“The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.” RunningKnownFateLimitsElementsLimitation Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.” MeanBookEndsCharacterFormFateLimitsBirdBillsDetermineExpensesSnakesSkullsSpineMenagerie Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides to the ground and then bounced toward her eagerly. 'You see I am fate,' it shouted, 'and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.” LittlesDifferentEndsDreamDesireTurnsSidesVoiceHoursClearFatePlansMinutesMinesShapesProveLimitsLowsStrongerAccidentsFlightExceptionCrucialBellsBowlsDishesCondimentsUnfulfilled Desires Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
“She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence of her heart, in the tedium of old age, she would remember almost with nostalgia - however absurd that might seem.” HeartSeemsMightRunningAgeRememberSilenceFateRiskOne DayLimitsVictimNostalgiaAbsurdOld AgePushingTediumExperiencing Things Author:Paulo Coelho