Quotes About Inevitability

How did a man know when it was his time? The answer is simple. There comes a moment when you no longer resist the inevitable and you accept the fact that billions have preceded you and that your death is not more important than theirs.

How did a man know when it was his time? The answer was simple. There comes a moment when you no longer resist the inevitable and you accept the fact that billions have preceded you and that your death is not more important than theirs.

Yes, Max, you are going to die. Just like everybody else. Thank you, Confucious.

But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just.. how it works

DIAGRAMMING MY DEATH SENTENCE

We're all on death row, ultimately. Are you so stupid that don't see that? Sure, you kids in here, as enemies of the system, will assuredly die earlier than most. As well you should. But all of us everywhere have a one-way ticket to death.

I don't want to use the word 'instinct,' but when something good happens - something big or good in my life - I have this sensation that it was inevitable. Anything careerwise, 'Lord of the Rings,' 'Rudy,' or getting married. Which is weird, because you don't ever want to be ungrateful for what you have.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

I've always been infatuated with death. I'm drawn to the permanence of it and the unknown.

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.

It is in vain to try and stop a star from rising, even with a ladder.

If you stand in the way of two people who were meant to be together, destiny's train will run you over.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change.

Birth is the beginning of death

The hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of Time and Chance, except, perhaps, fair play.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.

There will come a day for each of us, and then for all of us, when the future will be done with. Until then, humanity will acclimate itself to every new horror that comes knocking as it has done from the very beginning.

And we will persist in chasing the impossible until we are no more.

Rigorously considered, our only natural birthright is to die.

The sum total of a person's experiences, desires and knowledge, his hereditary constitution, the social circumstances and the nature of the choice facing him, together with other factors that we may not know about, all combine to make a particular action in the circumstances inevitable.

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

It had to happen. It was part of the order of things. It was the way the universe was supposed to work.