Fatalistic Quotes

“Yes it will be a grace if I die. To exist is pain. Life is no desire of mine anymore.”
― Sophocles, Electra

“ the path your life is stuck on and be free

It's a dark whisper calling to me.

But I'm not brave enough to listen. I'm old enough to know I don't have any special talents. So no matter how depressing... I have to suck it up... And live the life I have.”
― Inio Asano, Solanin

“I'm made for misery, misery, misery, I'm made to be destroyed!”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“I'll never be happy, how can you love me, I'm awful, I'm covered with spiders, I'm doomed.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“...{I]f everything that has some share of life were to die, and if after death the dead remained in that form and did not come to life again, would it not be quite inevitable that in the end everything should be dead and nothing alive?... [W]hat possible means could prevent their number from being exhausted by death?”
― Socrates, Apology, Crito And Phaedo Of Socrates.

“Let the snake that bit you bite me back. Let it bite me on the lip. Die with me.”
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations

“But now I remember, of course, I'm never going to be old.”
― Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking

“Everything is very nearly over. And so none of the normal rules of behavior apply. And so none of my actions can have consequences.”
― Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking

“I have been struck down before my life begins. I have already died in the war.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“The wound with which she travelled vibrated within her. She thought, I shall never have what I desire. I shall become bitter and defeated and dim, and I shall never really paint, I am a freak, a crippled animal, something to be put down, put to sleep, put out of its misery.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“I thought it might make him despair of life, but he has despaired anyway.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“Ted thinks: Everyone at this party could die tonight, including me, and I wouldn't even care. He gets very drunk.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

“Psychic reading without spiritual guidance is futile fortunetelling at best, and fatalistic fear-mongering at worst.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Life is essentially a fatal disease of indeterminate duration.”
― Gene Weingarten, One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America