Quotes About Inevitability

Civilizations are mortal" is the greatest comfort for someone alive today.

Everything rolls toward death, but only what lacks value rolls toward nothingness.

About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether or not we exist. If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come and see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

And meanwhile death was as terrible in a small man as in a great one.

At last; something must kill a man.

Do not tempt fate by saying never. Never again this, never again that—for you can never be sure of never and that's the only thing you can be sure of.

If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible

That's history. It happened whether it offends you or not. Quite a bit of it offends me, but there's nothing I can do about it.

death renders all faces similar.

The same fate awaits me too, and Oddball, and the Deer outside; one day we shall all be nothing more than corpses.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

End of the wonderful one-hoss shay.Logic is logic. That's all I say.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

The Moving Finger writes and, having writ, Moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Però il rimpianto esiste, e i legami esistono, radicati in noi come alberi che non cedono neanche all'uragano, inevitabili come la fame e la sete. Non te ne puoi mai liberare, anche se ci provi con tutta la tua volontà, la tua logica. Magari credi di averli dimenticati e un giorno riaffiorano, irrimediabilmente, spietati, per metterti la corda al collo più di qualsiasi boia. E strozzarti.

C'è spesso, nella mia vita, una sorta di fatalità. E questa fatalità, non noi, ha determinato ciò che doveva accadere. È accaduto troppo in fretta? Può darsi. Ma le cose importanti come nascere amare e morire non guardano il tempo dell'orologio, mio caro Peer Gynt.

We all live a sheet of paper away from death, so we shouldn't be surprised by death.

The fight against Nature is hopeless and yet — it will be fought out to the bitter end.

Your lot is mortal: not mortal is what you desire.

Aki él, nem rejtÅ'zhet el. Szép lassan minden megtörténik az emberrel. Zsugorodik a zsugori idÅ'.

Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than you could put the head of a dandelion back together after the wind has scattered its seeds.

Así es la muerte de cabrona, acaba con las vueltas, las disquisiciones, las opciones.

And youth, though they see every day the cradle and grave shaped so alike, never believe death will happen to them. I told you it was a comedy.

Épicure a écrit : Chacun sort de la vie comme s'il était à peine né.