Quotes · Skopia

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Poem · Epic poem

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

The Iliad · 700 BC

★ 8.2

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain, For promis'd joy.

1785

★ 6.9

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that Fate and character are the same conception.

1802

★ 6.9

By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851

★ 6.3

Play · History (play) · Tragedy (play)

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 5.6

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

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

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

The Joy Luck Club · 1989

★ 4.7

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

William Shakespeare

Hamlet · 1616

★ 1.9

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