“Though I battle blind,
Love is a fate resigned
Memories mar my mind,
Love is a fate resigned
Over futile odds,
And laughed at by the gods
And now the final frame,
Love is a losing game.”
Love Is A Losing Game
Song lyrics, Back To Black (2006)
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English singer and songwriter 1983–2011Related quotes
Variant: Fate loves the fearless.
“Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate.
Love, Work, and Faith — these three alone are great.”
Three Things.
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
Context: Divine the Powers that on this trio wait.
Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate.
Love, Work, and Faith — these three alone are great.
“Present action, though futile, is preferable to passive acceptance of such a fate as awaits us.”
Source: A Quest for Simbilis (1974), Chapter 6, “The House on the River” (p. 112)
“It was fate, and being angry at fate was as futile as being angry at the weather.”
Source: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 23 (p. 116).
“My sins, my wild loves, and Fate herself
have all conspired against me.”
Erros meus, má fortuna, amor ardente
Em minha perdição se conjuraram.
Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition (2008), ed. William Baer, p. 99
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Erros meus, má fortuna, amor ardente
