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Quotes About Inevitability

The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.
~ Peggy Orenstein
Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.' 'I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to die. Dying can't be called a success.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
The indignity of your fate is the will of one more powerful.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.
~ Peter Ackroyd
You cannot fight entropy.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
It is the epitome of entropy, the final enemy of all things.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Some things are sharper than they have been for years." "That's good. That means death is approaching.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.
~ Peter Heller
Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.
~ Job 20:24
They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
~ Job 24:24
It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
~ Job 27:22
They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
~ Job 34:20
Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.
~ Ecclesiastes 6:10
The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet of foot will not escape, and the horseman will not save his life.
~ Amos 2:15