“Yet they, believe me, who await
No gifts from Chance, have conquer’d Fate.”

“there must be a way.

surely there must be a way that we have not yet
thought of.

who put this brain inside of me?

it cries
it demands
it says that there is a chance.

it will not say
"no.”

“Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.”

“And above all, we must feel and act as if an endless continuation of our earthly life awaited us after death; and if it be that nothingness is the fate that awaits us we must not, in the words of Obermann, so act that it shall be a just fate.”

“Present action, though futile, is preferable to passive acceptance of such a fate as awaits us.”

“Those who deny chance. — 'No victor believes in chance.”

“It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate awaiting them on this earth.”

“People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.”

“Who does not believe in Fate proves that he has not lived.”

“The individual, his character, and his fate are for real. Each individual is different from every other individual who has ever lived or who will ever live. A human life is a dramatic and irreversible movement from birth to death, surrounded by mystery and overshadowed by chance.”