Quotes About Inevitability

It was their favorite bitter joke: those who fight against prophecy only draw it more tightly around their throats.

He had no chance, really. He was only flesh.

those who fight against prophecy only draw it more tightly around their throats.

Well, do you do that consciously? Daily Alice asked, only partly of Cloud. Do what? Cloud said. Grow up? No. Well. In a sense. You see it's inevitable, or refuse to. You greet it or don't -- take it in trade, maybe, for all you're going to lose anyway. Or you can refuse, and have what you've got to lose snatched from you, and never take payment -- never see a trade is possible.

Sempre teremos de morrer

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me the most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

We tell him, now, that he might have helped her that time, but in the long run, we know, doom floats.

In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases. John Irving's The World According to Garp

In the World according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.

I did not stop to think that one wave is inevitably followed by another even larger and more powerful, when the tide is coming in.

The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

There is no must to the life of a mortal, except death.

But then there are those who wear their destinies like nooses, whose lives run straight as planks, however they try to twist it.

Morirse será así, notar que algo se acerca y que no se puede evitar?

Morirse será así, notar que algo se acerca y que no se puede evitar? Este pensamiento surge de la nada y le cae en la cabeza como una gota de vino en el agua, la mancha, oscura y expansiva, le colorea las ideas.

There will be no going back. No undoing of what was laid out for them. The boy has gone and the husband will leave and she will stay and the pigs will need to be fed every day and time runs only one way.

There will be no going back. No undoing of what was laid out for them. The boy has gone and the husband will leave and she will stay and the pigs will need to be fed every day and time runs only one way. "Go, then," she says, turning from him, pushing him away, "if you are going. Return when you can.

Is this what it feels like to die, to sense the nearness of something you can't avoid?

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

Even if we had gone away together when I wanted us to, we would've been together for a year, maybe two. But sooner or later, other people would've found a way to wedge us apart.