The Fatalist/Quotes

""Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.""

- Natalie Clifford Barney

""Blame your fate.""

- Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia

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"There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line. The illusion comes afterwards, when you ask "Why me?" and "What if?". When you look back and see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or forked lightning. If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you, it would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions."

- Max Payne

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"Fate is what you call it when you don't know the name of the person screwing you over."

- Lois, Malcolm in The Middle

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"In the two years since then, Viltry had been unable to shrug off the idea that he should be dead already. He was living on borrowed time. His tutor at the scholam had drummed into him the concept of Fate's wheel. He'd said that it spun at the Emperor's right hand. It spun for balance, for symmetry. What was given would be taken, what was loaned would be paid back. A life saved was only a life spared."

- Double Eagle

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"Fate guides the willing, but drags the unwilling."

- Cleanthes (c. 330- c. 230 BC)

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"Why fight a battle you cannot win? To oppose the will of the Galaxy...is to deny the universe, the source of life...indeed, to deny life on this planet!"

- Sabata, Boktai