Richard Bach Quotes

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

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

I believe in fate, never in chance.

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

I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

I'm a very big believer in fate.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

I believe life is fated - what's going to happen will happen.

I have always believed that there is no such thing as coincidence, and I have always believed in destiny.

I believe in fate.

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

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.

Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.

The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.

The "determinist" swears that if we knew everything we should also be able to deduce and foretell the conduct of every man in every circumstance, and that is obvious enough. But the expression "know everything" means nothing.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.