Quotes About Inevitability

yo iba a hacer un daño un día, yo de viejo iba a ser otro experto en cómo perderlo todo, y ni siquiera ella habría podido evitarlo.

W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. ("Death Ship")

Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.

Civilization will fade away, but that will go on forever.

He's reached the age when dead is the new normal.

Death is everywhere, oppressive and beautiful.

The end is already planted in us at the beginning, and it gnaws away at us until we get there freely and consciously.

The ancients rightly called this internal longing for wholeness "fate" or "destiny," the "inner voice" or the "call of the gods." It has an inevitability, authority, and finality to it, and was at the heart of almost all mythology. Almost all heroes heard an inner voice that spoke to them. In fact, their heroism was in their ability to hear that voice and to risk following it—wherever!

Lives are rivers. We imagine we can direct their paths, though in the end there's but one destination, and we end up being true to ourselves only because we have no choice.

To see a life back to front, as everyone begins to do in middle age, is to strip it of its mystery and wrap it in inevitability, drama's enemy.

Neither beauty nor innocence nor the best of intentions can alter that which has always been.

Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.

You can't make me do nothing but die!

Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.

Nico found a sort of freedom in knowing that eventually, no matter what happened, he would end up at the foot of his father's throne.

People liked to be seen, even if it's by the cold, cruel eyes of fate.

My dear, dying is nothing to be embarrassed about. It happens to everyone.

but nonetheless once you hit fifty there was no escaping the fact that you had a one-way ticket on a nonstop service to the terminus.

What does it matter what people do? At the end of the day we're all dead.

I shall die. I must die. I cannot be so unhappy, and live.

Si es atal es atal. What will be will be.

Dying," she said in her last week, "is normal. It's as normal as being born.

The leaving happened slowly, gradually, as these things do, and before we knew it, we were lost to each other, as if a magician had whisked a cloth off the table, leaving the dishes there, jolted. And when we looked back it was all a blur, time on fast forward, hurtling to an inevitable conclusion.