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Fate

Destiny, kismet, inevitability, fortune

QUOTES

I (Death) was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
 Somerset Maugham
 Sheppey, 1933

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
 Wm Shakespeare
 Hamlet, 1601

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
 Joseph Campbell
 

Do not mistake consequences for fate.
 KirstinBrown
 

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
 Wm Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar,

Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.
 Homer
 Iliad, -800

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
 Tennessee Williams
 A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951

See Also

References

History
  • Aztec reaction to Cortez as fulfilment of destiny
  • Hawaiians' first reaction to Capt. Cook
  • Cargo cult in New Guinea
  • Interpretation of auguries, eclipses, entrails
  • Acceptance of status in the feudal system

    Arts & Science

    Literature

  • James Michener: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  • James Agee: A Death in the Family
  • The Erinyes in Greek mythology
  • Sophocles: Oedipus
  • Aeschylus: The Atreides, Prometheus Bound
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of Seven Gables
  • Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
  • John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath




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