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Quotes About Inevitability

Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins like slender bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day that ever was and he was riding to his death.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Those whom life does not cure death will.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He said men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Aki felismeri a végzetét s mégis az ellenkezÅ' irányt választja végül éppúgy ugyanoda ér s éppúgy számot kell adnia ugyanabban a szabott órában mert minden ember sorsa és végzete éppen akkora amekkora a világ melyben lakozik és amelyben minden ellentét egyaránt benne foglaltatik.
~ Cormac McCarthy
To know what will come is the same as to make it so.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Some things in this world cant be helped, he said. And I believe this is probably one of em.
~ Cormac McCarthy
he knew he feared the world to come for in it were already written certainties no man would wish for.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Sürmeye devam etti çünkü geri dönemezdi ve dünya o gün her zamankinden de güzeldi, o ise ölümüne yol al?yordu.
~ Cormac McCarthy
All of history a rehearsal for its own extinction
~ Cormac McCarthy
Death is what the living carry with them.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Wherever you debark was the train's destination all along.
~ Cormac McCarthy
It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way. He
~ Cormac McCarthy
You think that nuclear war is inevitable. I agree with Plato that only the dead have seen an end to war. And people dont fight with rocks when they have guns. Etcetera and so on.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Here is a small fact. You are going to die. Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
~ Cornelia Funke
by the time the datapocalypse is obvious even to people whose paychecks depended on denying it, it would be too
~ Cory Doctorow
Great Hero though you are, you cannot make the moving hand of time tick backward. None of us can do that
~ Cressida Cowell
Cogitatur depends on Est; and there's no avoiding it.
~ Crowley Aleister
Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel the pull of what other people want from you, and you sacrifice yourself, you risk seeming odd or sunsavory, to keep them entertained.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
It would in retrospect appear to be a stop on a narrative path that was inevitable, but this is only because most events, most paths, feel inevitable in retrospect.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Well, there it was: fated like the rest of things! It was rather awful, but why kick?
~ D.H. Lawrence
Because this is the way things are meant to be.(Press Tilton)
~ D.J. MacHale
In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death.
~ Walker Percy
It's like there's this wave coming toward me, but there's nothing I can do about it. And then it reaches me, crashes over me and...and I'm done for another day. I just give up. Give in to it. Because how do you stop a wave? You don't. And you're wise to recognize your powerlessness to do so. But what you can do is learn how to negotiate this wave. Work within the context of its inevitability.
~ Wally Lamb
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death
~ Walt Whitman