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Play · History (play)

What Fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide.

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 3 · 1595

★ 1.3

Play · Tragedy (play)

Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet · 1616

★ 1.3

People have already had to rethink so many concepts of motion, and they will also gradually come to realize that what we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1929

★ 1.9

Play · Tragedy (play)

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

William Shakespeare

Hamlet · 1616

★ 1.9

Play · Tragedy (play)

Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.

Pierre Corneille

1640

★ 1.9

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Teen (film) · Romantic comedy · Teen

Just so you know, judging from my little experience last night, I do think there is such a thing as fate. It just works in really fucked up ways sometimes.

Can't Hardly Wait · 1998

★ 1.9

Interview · Newspaper

It is very strange that I, a boy brought up in the woods, and seeing, as it were, but little of the world, should be drifted into the very apex of this great event.

Abraham Lincoln

1864

★ 2.0

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.

2006

★ 2.0

Play · Tragedy (play)

Be happy, drink, think each day your own as you live it and leave the rest to fortune.

Alcestis · 438 BC

★ 2.1

Do not try to find out-we're forbidden to know-what end the gods may bestow on me or you.

Odes · 23 BC

★ 2.1

Play · Comedy (play)

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven.

William Shakespeare

All's Well that Ends Well · 1616

★ 3.6

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

I never forgot. Not for one moment. I knew I'd find you in the end. It's our destiny.

Slumdog Millionaire · 2008

★ 3.6

Fragment · Philosophical literature

Whom the gods love dies young.

290 BC

★ 3.7

Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literature

War is father of all and king of all. Some he reveals as gods, other as men; some he makes slaves, other free.

★ 3.7

Personal journal · Philosophical literature

Whatever befalls you was prepared for you beforehand from eternity, and the thread of causes was spinning from everlasting both your existence and this which befalls you.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations · 180

★ 3.8

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

I don’t know if we each have a destiny, or if we’re all just floatin’ around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it’s both. Maybe both get happening at the same time.

Forrest Gump · 1994

★ 3.9

Poem · Epic poem

And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-it’s born with us the day that we are born.

The Iliad · 700 BC

★ 4.0

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

The Joy Luck Club · 1989

★ 4.7

Play · Comedy (play)

Time’s the king of men. He’s both their parent, and he is their grave, And gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

Pericles, Prince of Tyre · 1608

★ 5.5

Philosophical literature

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our to-day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, All Too Human · 1878

★ 5.5

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