| 1. | And as a matter of fact, the fatalism of the weak-willed embellishes itself surprisingly when it can pose as "la religion de la souffrance humaine" that is ITS "good taste.. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 2. | In general the poetry is earnest and somber, and pervaded by fatalism and religious feeling. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 3. | We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |