Destiny - Quotes from Science Fiction

A lot of quotations carefully collected from a very big amount of books and divided by categories.

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A blind fate, a vast pitiless mechanism, seemed to cut and shape the fabric of existence, and I, Moreau (by his passion for research), Montgomery (by his passion for drink), the Beast People, with their instincts and mental restrictions, were torn and crushed, ruthlessly, inevitably, amid the infinite complexity of its incessant wheels.

- H. G.Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)

A star a billion miles away explodes . . . and human civilization falls like a house of cards. The fantastic, inexorable mathematics of fate.

- Edmond Hamilton, ''The Ephemerae'' (1938)

We are all doomed to commit acts of cruelty or violence or evil; that is our destiny, due to ancient factors. Our karma.

- Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (1962)

''Statistics aren't the same thing as destiny, Bennie. Everybody makes his own.'' ''Statistics or destiny?'' ''Both, I guess.''

- Roger Zelazny, ''HeWho Shapes'' (1965)

Rarely is it given man to know the day or the hour when fate intervenes in his destiny, but, because he had checked his watch just before he saw the girl with the hips, Haldane IV knew the day, the hour, and the minute. At Point Sur, California, on September 5, at two minutes past two, he took the wrong turn and drove down a lane to hell.

- John Boyd, The Last Starship from Earth (1968)

I amnot a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I have to do before I can go.

- William S. Burroughs, TheWild Boys: A Book of the Dead (1971)

The city is necessity. The future is built. The gears move us toward it. I am Fate.

- Katherine MacLean, ''The Missing Man'' (1971)

To deny the past is to deny the future. A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.

- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore (1972)

''If they're dead there's nothing I can do about it,'' she said. ''And if they're alive, there's nothing I can do about it. So I shan't.''

- Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (1989)

Tiff believed that you are what happens to you. The rich and strong must have virtue; one to whom evil has been done must be bad, and may rightly be punished.

- Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea (1990)