“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“A fate is not a punishment.”
— Albert Camus, book The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation
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Maimónides book The Guide for the Perplexed
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.23
William Ernest Henley book Invictus
This may have inspired later lines of "A Challenge" from "Quatrains" by James Benjamin Kenyon, published in An American Anthology, 1787-1900 (1901) edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman:
Arise, O Soul, and gird thee up anew,
Though the black camel Death kneel at thy gate;
No beggar thou that thou for alms shouldst sue:
Be the proud captain still of thine own fate.
Invictus (1875)
“Punishment? Reward! Punishment? Reward!”
Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician
Song lyrics, Mutiny (1993), Mutiny in Heaven
Jack Finney book From Time to Time
Source: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 1 (p. 38)
“With deep sighs and tears, he burst forth into the following complaint: – "O irreversible decrees of the Fates, that never swerve from your stated course! why did you ever advance me to an unstable felicity, since the punishment of lost happiness is greater than the sense of present misery?"”
In hec verba cum fletu et singultu prupit. "O irrevocabilia seria fatorum quae solito cursu fixum iter tenditis cur unquam me ad instabilem felicitatem promovere volvistis cum maior pena sit ipsam amissam recolere quam sequentis infelicitatis presentia urgeri."
Geoffrey of Monmouth The History of the Kings of Britain
Bk. 2, ch. 12; p. 117.
Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain)
“Hitler was the fate of Germany and this fate could not be stayed.”
Walther von Brauchitsch (1881–1948) German field marshal
Quoted in "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" - Page I - by William L. Shirer - 1960
“We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.”
Jennifer Donnelly book The Tea Rose
Source: The Tea Rose
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism