“Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.”

“The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.”

“There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.”

“Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.”

“Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.”

“Man's death by sins is more than his death by fate and his life by charity is more than his life by age.”

“Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come.”

“The Valkyrie did not believe in coincidence, only fate. And sometimes fate didn't even bother being subtle.”

“But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated.”

“nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others”