Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Golden Violet - Sir Walter Manny at his Father’s Tomb
The Golden Violet (1827)
“Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.”
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).
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“The weary Titan staggers under the too vast orb of its fate.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) British businessman, politician, and statesman
Speech to the Colonial Conference, quoted in 'Mr. Chamberlain's Opening Speech', The Times (4 November 1902), p. 5.
1900s
Context: ... the expression was, "If you want our aid, call us to your Councils." Gentlemen, we do want your aid. We do require your assistance in the administration of the vast Empire which is yours as well as ours. The weary Titan staggers under the too vast orb of its fate. We have borne the burden for many years. We think it is time that our children should assist us, be very sure that we shall hasten gladly to call you to our Councils. If you are prepared at any time to take any share, any proportionate share, in the burdens of the Empire, we are prepared to meet you with any proposal for giving to you a corresponding voice in the policy of the Empire.
“When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.”
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"Notes" (1978), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Lillian Vallee
Hymn of the Pearl (1981)
“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).
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)
Curtis Sittenfeld (1975) Novelist, short story writer
Source: American Wife
“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
“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
Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist
Return to Tipasa (1954)
Variant translation: In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
As translated in Lyrical and Critical Essays (1968), p. 169; also in The Unquiet Vision : Mirrors of Man in Existentialism (1969) by Nathan A. Scott, p. 116