Conor Oberst Quotes

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

I think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen.

We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.

Some things can't be changed. They'll always happen the way they were supposed to.

Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

Intimates are predestined.

Sometimes I think some things just happen and are meant to be.

I feel like whatever is meant is meant. I feel like this is already written.

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.

I believe in fate, never in chance.

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

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

You seem to think you have a choice," Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.

A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.

What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.

Hear me when I say I believe nothings gonna change destiny. Whatevers meant to be will work out perfectly.

Men speak of blind destiny, a thing without scheme or purpose. But what sort of destiny is that? Each act in this world from which there can be no turning back has before it another, and it another yet. In a vast endless net. Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in the maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life.

You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.

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