Quotes About Inevitability

On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

There is no such thing as coincidence in this world. The only thing is hitsuzen. Hitsuzen...A naturally fore-ordained event. A state in which all other outcomes are impossible.

Why even ask the question? Growth is "natural," a child "develops," its potentialities "unfold." The words themselves, in their root meanings, proclaim inevitability.

Ik zekere zin gingen de zaken zo goed dat ze alleen maar erg slecht zouden kunnen gaan want wat helemaal rijp is kan gaan rotten.

E a morte, que era para ser uma única boa vez, não: está sendo sem parar.

For Martin, social justice would not "roll in on the wings of inevitability" but would come through struggle and sacrifice. *

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

We all have it comin', kid

a two-word formulation for the miraculous ability of pundits to deduce that a past event had been inevitable: "retrospective clairvoyance.

To resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly. —EDWARD GIBBON,

Primejdie! Ne b?l?cim cu toÈ›ii în bezna morÈ›ii, în ea dispare mereu câte un cap...

When they are born, they wish to live and to meet with their dooms - or rather to rest - and they leave children behind them to meet with their dooms in turn.

I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess, but you can see that there aren't fifty pages left, and you know that the finish can't be far off.

We don't have to invite pain in, he thinks. It's waiting for us: sooner rather than later.

Death is your prince, you are not his patron; when you think he is engaged elsewhere, he will batter down your door, walk in and wipe his boots on you.

We are always dying – I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or block their ears; they are all dying.

Well, ' he says, 'if you're dead, Peterborough is as good a place as any.

We're all dying, Cassel. It's just that some of us are dying faster than others.

Do you know what mortal means? It means born to die. It means deserving of death. That's what you are, what defines you—dying.

There's no way out," she reminded herself. "There's only what you do before you die.

There's no way out, she reminded herself. There's only what you do before you die.

wolves always come

Por mucho que te empeñes, no conseguirás que la luna se ponga o salga más deprisa.

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it's born with us the day that we are born.