Robert E. Howard Quotes

Some things you can't control.

Whatever will happen will happen.

Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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

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.

I'm a fatalist.

In the world we have entered there will be many things that we can do nothing about. We should accept this state of affairs and incidentally, be grateful for it.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

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

Whatever will be, will be.

And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.

I'm not a fatalist; even if I were, what could I do about it?

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

You can't do anything about the past. And you don't know what the future is.

If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger.

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.

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted

Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

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

You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it.

What happens tomorrow is going to happen tomorrow.