Quotes About Inevitability

Time is not your friend. It doesn't care if you live fast or die slow, if you are or if you aren't. It was here before you arrived and it will go on after you leave. Time doesn't care who wins or who loses, if your life span is full or empty, honorable or shameful. Time is indifferent. It simply doesn't give a shit.

Asking Jean-Claude not to be a pain in the ass was like asking rain not to be wet. Why try?

Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?

I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.

Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how.

The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on. Nor all your piety and wit Can call it back to cancel half a line Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.

Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.

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.

What goes up must come down.

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

What is is what must be.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.

You cannot hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that's left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has.

Eventually we will all wither and die in the wasteland of logic and science.

And nature must obey necessity.

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn't care, because if it did, it would've reversed.

Resistance, however, is useless. (1939)

We all end up dying in the end. It's just a question of how and when.

Ivan Klima dice: casi nada se parece tanto a la muerte como el amor realizado. Cada aparición de cualquiera de los dos es única pero definitiva, irrepetible, inapelable e impostergable.

Can a man escape what Fate has doomed? It is useless for a man to be anxious the last days of his life.

Temos de suportar com o coração impávido a sorte que nos é imposta e admitir a impossibilidade de fazermos frente à força irresistível da fatalidade.