Quotes About Inevitability

especially as the freshness of new initiatives gave way to the inevitability of routine.

los excesos de generosidad llevan a mecenas y filántropos a la ruina, de igual manera que la valentía, o la audacia, solo son exigibles ante la inevitable presencia de la muerte.

On the whole, it is less the sequence of ages that holds his attention than the general feeling of a kind of fatality:

Thus in the plural use of the word "age" there is an element of optimism, in sharp contrast to its use in the singular, which identifies it with an inevitability, a fate with no future

once the machine is put into gear, it must run its course.

The interval of space separating her from him was one which he must as inevitably traverse as he must descend, by an irresistible gravitation, the steep slope of life itself.

A chama da vida arde por um tempo e então se apaga. As sepulturas aguardam pacientemente a hora de serem ocupadas. A morte é o fim de toda a vida. Viver é se remexer constantemente em um túmulo. As coisas vivem e morrem. Às vezes vivem bem, e às vezes mal, mas sempre morrem, e a morte é aquilo que reduz todas as coisas ao menor denominador comum.

Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter: 'Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.

The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die.

Ingen såg at raset gjekk, for det rasa så langsamt, det rasa ikkje dag for dag, ikkje eingong time for time, ikkje minutt for minutt, men det rasa, heile tida rasa det, for det var eit ras, det måtte jo vera eit ras, for kva anna kunne det vera?

Profoundly healing insights may arise if you are willing to look deeply into your emotional pain as it is occurring, as well as in its aftermath. One major realization you might come to is the inevitability of change, the direct perception that, whether we like it or not, impermanence is in the very nature of things and relationships.

We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.

You can't let the fear of something completely and absolutely inevitable.

Fear and bigotry don't need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.

It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes

Life is only precious because it ends.

There are some things in life that aren't meant to be controlled, and there are some things in life that simply cannot be controlled because it's impossible to control what is irrepressible. You're only human, and humans are not supernatural.

I don't believe in destiny. What I do believe is that some things are unavoidable.

There is nothing certain in a mans life but that he must lose it.

One of the biggest lessons that I have learned in this life is how futile it is to fight inevitability. Life is change; if we stop changing, we stop growing. Life is never going to go exactly the way that you want it to. Something is always waiting to pop up and bite you. The more that you attempt to make life go your way the more that it won't. Your life will be so much more peaceful and smooth if you just learn to stop swimming upstream.

By the last days of December, it had come to seem likely that I would receive such a letter. Whether it was really likely or not, our desire for such a letter, our need for it, is enough to make us believe it will probably come. The soldier is convinced that an indefinitely extendable period must elapse before he will be killed, the thief before he will be arrested, all of us before we must die.