fate Quotes

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.