Quotes About Inevitability

Because change will come as it will, and there's nothing we can do to prevent it. In fact, try to stop it and you trip over the turning wheels.

Everyone will pass eventually, someway or somewhere

Do you believe that you will die? Yes, man is mortal, I am a man, ergo... No, that isn't what I mean. I know that you know that. What I'm asking is: Have you ever actually believed it, believe it completely, believe not with your mind but with your body, actually felt that one day the fingers now holding this very piece of paper will be yellow and icy...?

The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try.

Life is a book of changes. It should be read only to understand how it works. You can't help the changes in life; they must come whether they are good or bad because the good must follow the bad and the bad must follow the good. T

Death joins us to the great majority.

Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

The path we're taking is not a road, Kiyo, it's a pier, and it ends someplace where the sea begins. It can't be helped.

Because all those people around you and Miss Satoko are moving slowly but inexorably toward a dénouement. You don't think the two of you can hover forever in mid-air like two dragonflies making love?

Los labios y los ojos de Sonoko resplandecían. Su belleza me deprimía y despertaba en mi una sensación de impotencia. Esa misma sensación es la causa de que Sonoko me pareciera aún más efímera.

Time is what matters. As time goes by, you and I will be carried inexorably into the mainstream of our period, even though we're unaware of what it is. And later, when they say that young men in the early Taisho era thought, dressed, talked, in such and such a way, they'll be talking about you and me. We'll all be lumped together…. In a few decades, people will see you and the people you despise as one and the same, a single entity.

It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time.

It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time. Today

Estudiamos historia no para conocer el futuro, sino para ampliar nuestros horizontes, para comprender que nuestra situación actual no es natural ni inevitable y que, en consecuencia, tenemos ante nosotros muchas más posibilidades de las que imaginamos.

When you take into account our belief in the sanctity of human life, add the dynamics of the scientific establishment, and top it all with the needs of the capitalist economy, a relentless war against death seems to be inevitable. Our ideological commitment to human life will never allow us simply to accept human death.

Niciodat? omul nu trebuie s?-?i dea moartea, nici m?car s? ?i-o cheme. Omul are moartea în m?duva oaselor, din clipa în care s-a pl?m?dit... Vezi tu, Darie, în via?? po?i s? chemi, dac? e?ti nezdrav?n la minte, ?i moartea. Moartea ori o chemi, ori n-o chemi, tot vine când î?i este dat s? vin? ?i... te ia...

Death is the only fantasy that becomes real for all humans."

This is how it must be. I knew it with every nerve, and every hair, and every heartbeat, so sweet it verged on pain. And what joy to submit to this "must." A piece of iron must feel such joy as it submits to the precise, inevitable law that draws it to a magnet. Or a stone, thrown up, hesitating for a moment, then plunging headlong back to earth. Or a man, after the final agony, taking a last deep breath--and dying.

Death will get you sober.

She gave a single low cry, little more than a loud gasp, as I landed on top of her. In trying desperately to stay light I inevitably made myself heavier. Sod's law. I

A timeless leader practices the art of voluntary elimination. He knows what activities - physical or mental - must be given up so that an organization becomes more productive. A new organization is born in the womb of the old organization. A new generation of new recruits is forever striving to replace an old generation of employees. It is a war of sorts: a clash of perspectives and worldviews. This kind of war is inevitable. We cannot shy away from it.

Valerie Sherwood, I said to myself, you're going to die.

A cierta edad- afirmó Lewis Thomas cierta vez -,está en nuestra naturaleza desgastarnos, caer en trastornos y morir y eso es todo.