Quotes About Inevitability

Americans and Europeans kept telling themselves their tales of inevitability for a quarter century after the end of communism, and so raised a millennial generation without history.

Brezhnev. It was Brezhnev who proved to be Stalin's most important successor, because he redefined the Soviet attitude to time: he buried the Marxist politics of inevitability, and replaced it with a Soviet politics of eternity.

Death is not goodbye.

I would like to make a bold claim right here at the outset: the fact that we die is the most important fact about us. There is nothing that has more weight in our lives.

Once we are born, only two things are certain. One is that we will die and the other that we will experience change.

Given a long enough life, cancer will eventually kill you—unless you die first of something else.

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.

All us got a due date. All us got a death sentence. One day, we gonna die.

In a way, cancer is so simple and so natural. The older you get, this is just one of the things that happens as the clock ticks.

Death is the only thing that ever terrifies me. I hate it.

your fate is mortal: what you ask for isn't.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

Nothing is so sure as the final oblivion.

If you see a man asking for trouble, and insisting on getting it, the only thing to do is to stand by and wait till it comes to him. After that you may get a chance. But till then there's nothing to be done.

We're constantly moving dust from one place to another, only to have it replaced by more dust — entropy always wins.

it is so inevitable that men will be fools that it is only by another shift of folly that one might not be

Death lives in each one of us and begins its countdown on our birthdays and makes its rough entrance at the last hour and the perfect time.

You can weave your life so long—only so long, and then a thing in the world out of your control will tug at one vital thread and leave you patternless and subdued.

What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history.

In retrospect, military defeats and victories acquire a false sense of inevitability about them, whether we are looking at the German defeat of France in 1940 or the claimed elimination of the last vestiges of Isis in 2019.

It is so. It cannot be otherwise.

Enjoy it. One way or another, your days are numbered.

Nothing but sunrise and sunsetting Men fighting the things that are- Birthgiving and bloodletting And a drunk god snoring afar.