“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
“Fate withstands.”
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 440 (tr. Fairclough)
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“It was fate, and being angry at fate was as futile as being angry at the weather.”
Ian McDonald book Desolation Road
Source: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 23 (p. 116).
“if someone has a fate, then it's a man, if someone gets a fate, then it's a woman.”
Elfriede Jelinek (1946) Austrian writer
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Women As Lovers (1994)
José Saramago book The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
O destino é a ordem suprema, a que os próprios deuses aspiram, E os homens, que papel vem a ser o dos homens, Perturbar a ordem, corrigir o destino, Para melhor, Para melhor ou para pior, tanto faz, o que é preciso é impedir que o destino seja destino.
Source: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1993), p. 288
“I don't intend to share fate,
Fate which is a universal loneliness.”
Chairil Anwar (1922–1949) Indonesian poet
"Pemberian Tahu" ["A Proclamation"] (1946), p. 184
The Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar (trans. Burton Raffel)
“Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.”
Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6
“How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.”
Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835) German (Prussian) philosopher, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the University of Berlin
As quoted in International Proverbs (2000) by Luzano Pancho Canlas, p. 40
“Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.”
Duke Ellington (1899–1974) American jazz musician, composer and band leader
At age 66, on being passed over for an award (Pulitzer Prize for music) in 1965, as quoted in The Christian Science Monitor (24 December 1986).
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
