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Quotes about Fate

Well, honey, everybody has to die sometime.
— Wendell Berry
All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born.
— William Faulkner
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
— William Faulkner
There are good men everywhere, at all times. Most men are. Some are just unlucky, because most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be. And I've known some that even the circumstances couldn't stop. ~from 'Delta Autumn
— William Faulkner
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— William Faulkner
Which explains a lot, having likewise noticed in my time that the goddess in charge of virtue seems to be the same one in charge of luck, if not of folly also.
— William Faulkner
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— William Faulkner
There's death coming up, and you better understand this: some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it.
— William Goldman
Resign your destiny to higher powers.
— William James
But if, on the other hand, our theory should allow that a book may well be a revelation in spite of errors and passions and deliberate human composition, if only it be a true record of the inner experiences of great-souled persons wrestling with the crises of their fate, then the verdict would be much more favorable.
— William James
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.
— Henry David Thoreau
No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.
— Billy Graham