Quotes About Inevitability

A morte, afinal, é uma corda que nos amarra as veias. O nó está lá desde que nascemos. O tempo vai esticando as pontas da corda, nos estancando pouco a pouco.

A morte, afinal, é uma corda que nos amarra as veias.

And in that full day, while Jed slept and woke and worked and loved, the forces in the world around him rushed headlong toward an inevitable, and violent, climax.

No one escapes from life alive.

Life is a constant, merciless fight that everyone loses.

Golf balls are attracted to water as unerringly as the eye of a middle-aged man to a female bosom.

It was only a matter of time before we started dying.

Once a certain historical momentum is created I don't think it can be stopped.

you can do nothing to stop the ocean or the sky from what it will do.

All of these people, it was as if they were all turning to gold, all marked with an invisible X on their foreheads, as of course we are, too, the place and time yet to be determined. Yes, we are burning down; time is disintegrating.

In an infinity of worlds, anything is not only possible, it's mandatory .

but we often meet our fate on the road we take to avoid it.

do we not all aspire after that which conducts us to the grave—

If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.

Chacun d'entre nous a beau avoir une certaine capacité de résistance on finit tous par mourir d'amour, ou plutôt d'absence d'amour, c'est au bout du compte inéluctablement mortel.

La mort est le grand égalisateur

The tragedy of banality, produced by ordinary circumstances, and therefore all the more inescapable, remains to be written.

But the past always seems, perhaps wrongly, to be predestined.

Je vois le soir tomber et le monde mourir.

I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.

You can't unscramble eggs.

Michelle Stimpson

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.