Jack Vance Quotes

Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.

Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.

There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

With situations that you have no power over, there is no point in worrying about one thing or another. Why think about things that you can't control?

It's better to accept destiny.

I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

Whatever will happen will happen.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate

If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem - it's reality.

For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

You can't break what's broken already.

At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.