Quotes About Inevitability

They realize their ultimate doom, but they are fatalists, incapable of resistance or escape. Not one of the present generation has been out of sight of these walls.

How easy it was to capitalize on a person's own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.

How easy it was to capitalise on a person's own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually.

Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

THERE WAS NOTHING INEVITABLE about this turn of events. No divine providence or progressive teleology, no unfolding Hegelian dialectic required that liberalism triumph after World War II.

We're all dying. That's what defines the condition of living." -Winston S. Churchill

Death is an inconvenience, to be sure," The Wizard Landau Bain, Lucky Stiff (still writing it)

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.

More people perish than want to. Death comes running with astonishing speed, strikes his victims with marvelous accuracy. These include generals, doctors, governesses, soldiers, policemen, ministers. None of them pass away peacefully, as it says in the newspapers. Their executions are violent enough.

She had an ability, invaluable in a weak person, to persuade herself that whatever was inevitable had her full approval, and was in some measure her own doing.

It is never a question of what we desire," she said sensitively. "The path we all follow is already woven for us.

But it was equally clear to her that this was her fate, that she had called its name and it had come to her, and she could do nothing now but own it.

Every life is terminal. No matter how long we get to live, we are all headed for the same end.

There's difference between being dead and dying. We're all dying. Some of us die for ninety years, and some of us die for nineteen. But each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death. Everyone. So living and dying are actually different words for the same thing, if you think about it.

Every man is put on earth condemned to die. Time and method of execution unknown.

Fate is not merely knocking on the door, it has entered with a SWAT team and is banging their heads together and administering poppers.

How can you treat death so lightly? she asks. Because it happens, he replies. It is inevitable. I do not mourn the falling of a leaf or the breaking of a wave. I do not sorrow for a shooting star as it burns itself up in the atmosphere. Why should I?

It would seem we have small chance but to be dutiful in the end.

Time, the ultimate grandmaster that could never be checkmated. There was no way out of its distended belly.

I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.