Quotes About Inevitability

Some things never change. Death, taxes —and somebody always pays for lunch.

We begin to die with our first breath. Death is inside us, ticking closer, closer, with every beat of our heart. It is the end no man can escape

One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.

Puisqu'après tant d'efforts ma résistance est vaine, Je me livre en aveugle au destin qui m'entraîne

Of course, every new caress would only have taken us closer to the inevitable: break-ups, tears, disillusionment, sadness, anguish, loathing. It wouldn't have made the slightest difference to the mess that human beings make of this world.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire.

I keep seeing my life darting off in the different directions it could have taken, as chance and circumstance, temperament and desire, open and close, open and close gates, routes, roadways. And yet there feels like an inevitability to who I am--just as of all the planets in all the universes, planet blue, this planet Earth, is the one that is home.

Don't worry," said Maddy. "People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can't touch the place life comes from. Whatever made plants and animals and people spring up in the first place will always be there, and life will spring up again.

One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.

One always dies too soon -- or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up.

What men have in common is not a nature but a condition, that is, an ensemble of limits and restrictions: the inevitability of death, the necessity of working for a living, of living in a world already inhabited by other men.

One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.

I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.

To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.

If you start thinking war is inevitable, then in your own times, you don't resist it as strongly as you should.

But I believe in destiny and strongly feel that certain things are meant to happen and so they will happen.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

Believe it or not each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die

Our heads will happen cold when this is found.

Strange that it will all just go on, we will paint, travel, love, grieve, collect money, buy things, grow old ... whether we want to or not.