Quotes About Inevitability

This was all in the making, a long time ago. You had as much control over these events as a leaf does in the time of its falling.

He who must die, must die in the dark, even though he sells candles.

Eventually, all our graves go unattended.

There is no escape from me, not even in death.

A death is never good. It's never pleasant. We can only ignore it, until our time comes.

No one escapes his fate, whether brave or coward, not from the moment he is born.' – Homer, The Iliad

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.

But there are three things in this world you can't shrug off: death, taxes – and a girl who loves you.

I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew was going to come rolling in on me some day and obliterate me. I was only to stay alive a little brief while longer, after I was already gone.

Gravity, Craig," Old Pola said to me. "Now, there's a force to match tectonics. What goes up must come down.

he's like a gun; once you point him and pull the trigger, it's too late to change your mind.

For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.

As long as skies are blue and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

In death we're all equal.

Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

For time at last sets all things even And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power.

Beulah drifts deeper. Part of her knows tonight is the night she will not wake from her slumber. Come morning she will be gone, and this house will be Horton's.

Nothing could hold back time or tide, or weather, or what was going to come out of this now . . .

Some things just are, he said softly against her hair. Day turns to night. Te ocean tide drifts in and out. And I want you, Tara. Damn you, but I do. I always have.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind. [Nicodemus] said then. A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

Everyone dies, honey, I said, very quietly. Everyone. There's no 'if.' There's only 'when.' I let that sink in for a moment. When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?

I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

Death is certain, Aleran—for all of us. That being true, we know that all of those we love will either be torn away from us, or we will be torn away from them. It follows as naturally as the night after sundown.