Quotes About Inevitability

I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of [man's] puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.

Just like folks. Put off as long as she could having to be brave, knowing all the time that sooner or later she would have to be brave once so she could keep on calling herself a dog, and knowing beforehand what was going to happen when she done it.

é preciso duas pessoas para fazer alguém, e uma para morrer. é assim que o mundo vai acabar.

The future, eventually, will find you out. The future, wielding unimaginable tools of transparency, will have its way with you. In the end, you will be seen to have done that which you did.

Che idea, pensare che la Bestia fosse qualcosa che si potesse cacciare e uccidere! [...] Lo sapevi, no?… Che io sono una parte di te? Vieni vicino, vicino, vicino! che io sono la ragione per cui non c'è niente da fare? Per cui le cose vanno come vanno?

There's death coming up, and you better understand this: some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it.

some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it. This isn't Curious George Uses the Potty.

There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn

Can our actions change our destiny? Or are they like sand piled against the breakage in a dam, merely delaying the inevitable?

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

Life ... would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions.

You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey

I should die some day. Had I ever thought of it? I reflected. No, I had never thought of it. I could not. You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

You can predict an eclipse a thousand years hence, but you cannot predict what will happen when you pull a bulldog's tail!

And so, perhaps, I must once again accept what I used to suspect about my birth: that I had been here many times before and would come again regardless of how unhappily, unwillingly, and to exactly this same place.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible.

You're going to do what you're going to do and that's all there is. That's all you got and that's that.

Life is death in slow motion.

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers, because it is dried by the sun, because it grows heavier, because the wind shakes it, or because the boy standing below wants to eat it?

And so there was no single cause for war, but it happened simply because it had to happen

Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force.

Again minute followed minute and hour followed hour. Everything remained the same and there was no cessation. And the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible. "Yes,