Quotes About Inevitability

We can eat healthily, exercise and live sensibly but we will still age. Our 80th birthday will still be on the same date. Sure, we can make it more likely we will reach 80, but we can't stop the wheels of time. And that certainty is actually quite reassuring.

You don't go to death. Death comes to you.

I am afraid that is, as they say, impossible. Time moves forwards. We have the luxury of time but we still can't reverse it. We can't stop it. We are one-way traffic, just the same as all these mayflies.

Car accident, drug overdose, drowning, a bout of fatal food poisoning, choking on an apple, choking on a cookie, choking on a vegan hot dog, choking on a non-vegan hot dog, every illness it was possible for you to catch or contract . . . You have died in every way you can, at any time you could.

You don't go to death. Death comes to you.

The man who to untimely death is doomed Vainly would hedge him in from the assault of harm; He bears the seed of ruin in himself.

more or less in keeping with the intuition, common to the greater part of men, that death is a falling into a dark and immense silence, into an indefinite unconsciousness.

If you live on the brink of death yourself, it is as if those who have gone have merely caught an earlier train to the same destination, and whatever that destination is, you will be sharing it soon, since you will almost certainly be catching the next one.

There is no god but death.

I ni?eg ne bi bilo od ovog što me boli, ni Harunove smrti, ni ove no?i posljednje. A možda bi i bilo, jer neka no? mora biti posljednja, i nešto mora biti što boli, uvijek.

I was dying, of course, but then we all are. Every day, in perfect increments.

Everything changes," I told him. "Eventually.

Time doesn't obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.

All this world confusion and chaos was inevitable and no one is to blame. What had to happen has happened; and what has to happen will happen. There was and is no way out except through my coming in your midst. I had to come, and I have come. I am the Ancient One.

He who believes in the fate accepts the collar in his neck!

To defeat all their enemies and be victorious! This is the unpreventable destiny of all the great ideas!

Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!

We can't change our fate, because we can't change something which doesn't exist.

We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

I feel tears well in my eyes and I can't even stop them from happening. I can't stop anything from happening in my life.

After all, Leonie knew better than most that there were some situations that just couldn't be fixed, and some actions that couldn't be undone.

What's the point of flinching? Whatever is coming comes anyway.

Whether the melon falls on the knife or the knife falls on the melon, it's the melon that suffers." And so it would appear to me