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Quotes About Inevitability

Isn't it funny how we all die at the same time? Always at the end of our lives. Why worry?
~ Alice McDermott
And why was I (so) fated?
~ Alice Notley
Fate, I say, has claws.
~ Alice Notley
Like doom like fate like familial indebtedness to a past One always saw coming
~ Alice Notley
One had but to look at him to appreciate that he had been doomed from the cradle to end up in the Oval Office: that anyone else should aspire to be – or be – the Chief Executive was quite unthinkable.
~ Alistair MacLean
I could slip quietly out into the world and never be seen again. But life is never like that, is it? Things keep happening until you die.
~ Ally Kennen
Estaba escrito que esto tenía que sucederme. A mí y a nadie más. Hay cosas que nunca aprendo. Su presencia acumulada, en el curso de la vida, es lo que los necios llaman destino. Pobre consuelo.
~ Alvaro Mutis
Fue en esas primeras miradas, en esos primeros intercambios, que percibí no la incertidumbre del amor entre los dos, sino más bien la apremiante inevitabilidad del mismo.
~ Alyson Richman
Acababa de enterarme de la terrible noticia a la que, un día u otro, todo humano tiene que enfrentarse: lo que amas, lo perderás. "Lo que te ha sido dado te será arrebatado".
~ Amelie Nothomb
No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.
~ Michael Scheuer
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
~ O. Henry
Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.
~ Andrew Sullivan
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
~ Horace
Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.
~ Sylvester Stallone
I believe that nothing is an accident. Everything happens for a reason. And everyone you meet and everyone you come into contact with it's meant to happen.
~ Bebe Buell
We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.
~ Peter Greenaway
The universe is a meat grinder and we're just pork in designer shoes, keeping busy so we can pretend we're not all headed for the sausage factory.
~ Richard Kadrey
The earthquake is the thing that all humans face: the banal inevitability of death. We don't know when it will come, but we know that it will. We take refuge in elaborate and ingenious precautions, but in the end they are all in vain. We think about it even when we are not thinking about it; after a while, it seems to define what we are. It comes most often for the old, but we feel it most cruelly when it also takes away the young.
~ Richard Lloyd Parry
I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
~ Richard Pryor
you're just as dead whether they were born in a mansion or a slum, use a Magnum or a zip gun.
~ Richard S. Prather
Every morning the same big and little words all spelling out desire, all spelling out You will be alone always and then you will die .
~ Richard Siken
I didn't want to see it this way, everything eating everything in the end.
~ Richard Siken
We should accept the likelihood that male violence and male dominance over women have long been a part of our history. But with an evolutionary perspective we can firmly reject the pessimists who say it has to stay that way. Male demonism is not inevitable.
~ Richard W. Wrangham
Quizás consideres que resulta morboso pensar en la muerte, pero en realidad es contraproducente vivir negándola y no considerar lo que es inevitable.
~ Rick Warren