Fate · Skopia

Quotes

25

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

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Songs

11

Bohemian Rhapsody

1975★ 9.1

Pressure DropToots and the Maytals

Pressure Drop

Toots and the Maytals

1970★ 7.3

Turn! Turn! Turn!

1965★ 7.0

The Breaks

1980★ 6.8

Pink Moon

1972★ 6.7

That's Life

1966★ 6.6

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Books

10

Aeneid

19 BC★ 9.5

The Three Theban Plays

429 BC★ 8.8

The Arabian Nights

Author unknown

1100★ 7.5

Mahabharata

Vyasa and Carole Satyamurti

400 BC★ 7.5

Iphigenia; Phaedra; Athaliah

1691★ 7.2

The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

1812★ 7.0

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