Quotes About Inevitability

Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.

fate is the ultimate preexisting condition.

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

Folks always look good in their coffins.

Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how.

Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

The future happens. No matter how much we scream.

One way to pick a future is to believe it's inevitable.

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.

Time has a way of changing things, and change is gone come whether we like it or not.

Remember friends as you pass by, As you are now so once was I. As low as I you once must be, Prepare yourself and follow me.

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

On a bright winter morning in 1966, seizing another cigarette from the pack on her metal desk and igniting it with a quick snap of her lighter, she mused, "Of course, somebody's gonna get George sooner or later. I've accepted that. He's gonna get it. My only consolation is, when it happens, he'll be doing the only thing he's ever cared about doing anyway.