Quotes About Inevitability

Then as it was, then again it will be. Though the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.

When Grandma read me: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall . . . I never knew that Humpty's fall was something that someday comes to us all.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

You people work together to make sure nothing ever changes. Shoganai. Shoganai. That's all I ever hear Book 3, p374

Any event once it has occurred can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.

Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know.

Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner later.

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

Some people think destiny is something you cannot escape, such as death or a curdled cheesecake, both of which always turn up sooner or later.

Everybody will die, of course, sooner or later. Circus performers will die, and clarinet experts will die, and you and I will die, and there might be a person who lives on your block, right now, who is not looking both ways before he crosses the street and who will die in just in a few seconds, all because of a bus. Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

Everybody will die, of course, sooner or later. Circus performers will die, and clarinet experts will die, and you and I will die, and there might be a person who lives on your block, right now, who is not looking both ways before he crosses the street and who will die in just a few seconds, all because of a bus. Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact. The

Each meal you eat is poison, because the food is just moving you through the world and the end of your time in it. Dinner is poison, and lunch. Brunch and eleveneses and both afternoon and bedtime snacks are poison, and so is breakfast the next morning, all these meals bringing us closer and closer to death.

She's like a stoplight in the middle of my life and there's just no avoiding her.

For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.

For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

Since the alternatives to war remain roads largely not taken in the United States, however, they are tricky subjects for historians. As Edward Carr notes, History is, by and large, a record of what people did, not what people failed to do. On the other hand, making the present seem inevitable robs history of all its life and much of its meaning. History is contingent on the actions of people.

Making the present seem inevitable robs history of all its life and much of its meaning.

told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

When we focus on the future, we do one of three things. We fantasize, which involves big dreams that are mostly for fun and entertainment; we dwell, which involves focusing on all the bad stuff that might happen—this was the official pastime of my hometown—or we hope, which involves envisioning the future while recognizing the inevitability of challenges.