“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).
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British science fiction novelist 1960Related quotes
“No one has ever been angry at another human being—we’re only angry at our story of them.”
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
"A Fable" (or "The Raven"), line 36.
“I was angry at her for not being what I wanted.”
Source: Das Gewicht der Welt [The Weight of the World], p. 14
“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).
Source: A Hunger Like No Other
Letter as quoted in "Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life" (2003) written by Caroline Moorehead, pg. 142.
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
“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)