Fata Quotes & Sayings

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. — Neal Shusterman

Don't pursue happiness!
Life is as short as a sigh.
The dust of people that were once famous
turn with the reddish clay on the wheel you are
looking at. The universe is a fata morgana;
life is a dream. — Omar Khayyam

There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator. — George MacDonald

If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it.
[Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.] — Martial

If we will not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences, the work, the society, letters, arts, science, religion of men would go on far better than now, and the heaven predicted from the beginning of the world, and still predicted from the bottom of the heart, would organize itself, as do now the rose, and the air, and the sun. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Infinity is against us," I told him. "There's no way for us ever to count it or control it or understand it. — David Levithan

From no place can you exclude the fates.
[Lat., Nullo fata loco possis excludere.] — Martial

Habent sua fata libelli. (Books have their own destinies.) — Terentianus Maurus

Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies] — Ernst Junger

Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart of his paradisal ideal. Somehow, somewhere, somewhen, love should be a fulfillment, and life should be a thing of bliss. That was his fixed ideal. Fata Morgana. That was the pin he tortured himself on, like a pinned-down butterfly. — D.H. Lawrence

... Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the inked fibers of a map, that pure zone between land and chart, between distances and legends, between nature and storyteller. The place they had chosen to come to, to be their best selves, to be unconscious of ancestry. Here, apart from the sun compass and the odometer mileage, and the book, he was alone, his own invention. He knew during these times how the mirage worked, the fata morgana, for he was within it. — Michael Ondaatje

In love, it's because people want something that doesn't exist, at least abundantly, people tend to put on false masks imitating the non-existant. — Daya Kudari

Halakha, as the human way of life in accordance with the Torah, does not aim at absolute truth, nor does it run after the fata- morgana of universal truth. Neither of them is accessible to human beings. Its aim is "earthly truth" that the human intellect is able to grasp and for whose pursuance in life man must accept personal responsibility. — Eliezer Berkovits

The problem is we are not eating food anymore, we are eating food like products. (Hungry For Change Film) — Alejandro Junger

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest.
[Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago?
Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.] — Ovid

My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking. — Mika Brzezinski

It is ever thus. We find the words to speak when all hope of converse is past. — Stephanie Barron

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer. — Leslie Fiedler

What would New York be without slavery? — Philip S. Foner

Pro captu lectoris, habent sua fata libelli":
"According to the capacity of the reader,books have their destinies."
— Terentianus Maurus

By the way, there is nothing cute about a pink wheelchair. Pink doesn't change a thing. — Sharon M. Draper

Let me tell you a joke, Rora said.
Mujo and his wife, Fata, are in bed. It's late at night. Mujo is falling asleep, and Fata is watching porn: a horny couple, all silicone and tattoos, is sucking and fucking like there is no tomorrow. Mujo says, C'mon, Fata, turn that off, let's go to sleep. And Fata says, Let me just see if these kids are going to get married in the end. — Aleksandar Hemon

Prayer is the easiest thing to assume in church and the hardest thing to maintain. Prayer is the first thing our flesh stops when times get easy, and true prayer is the last thing we resort to when times get tough. — James MacDonald

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music. — Jon Fishman

The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it. — Sri Chinmoy

We learn by experience that happiness and pleasure are a fata morgana, which, visible from afar, vanish as we approach; that, on the other hand, suffering and pain are a reality, which makes its presence felt without any intermediary, and for its effect, stands in no need of illusion or the play of false hope. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love. — Mariah Nelson