Quotes About Inevitability

Maybe all of the mysteries of particle theory can be solved by invoking the same mantra: if the universe were any other way, we could not live in it.

Wherever you are, death will find you, even in the looming tower. O

Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.

But, you know, nobody lives forever. Conceptually these things don't come as a surprise.

The car kept on coming. The train kept on coming. Vectoring in. Collision course.

I guess she couldn't think of anything to say. But the truth was, I was doing OK at that point. Life was unfolding the same way it always had for everyone. Sooner or later you ended up an orphan. There was no escaping it. It had happened that way for a thousand generations. No point in getting all upset about it.

first you live, and then you die. It's not an outrage. It's something that's been happening since the dawn of time. It has to happen, don't you see? If people didn't die, the world would be an awfully crowded place by now.

I know they're true." "Because?" "Human nature," he said. "You know how it is. Whatever your intentions, if you have the ability to do something, then you will do it, sooner or later. The temptation is always there, and it can't be resisted forever. Don't tell me you think any different.

Some old guy once said the meaning of life is that it ends. Which was inescapably true. No one lives forever.

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

Nuestra vida está hecha de la muerte de otros

Te estás empezando a marchitar, ¿sabes?, y cuando llega ese momento nadie puede evitar que sus pétalos estén desordenados.

I hate you, Caleb Halliday," she vowed. He kissed her lightly, and she caught the spicy female scent of her own body. "Of course you do, darling," he said, propelling her toward the Tibbets' front gate. "And what happened tonight is never going to happen again!" "Wrong," Caleb said confidently. "It's going to happen thousands of times, in thousands of different places." Before

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. You can will what you want, but you can't will what you will

We neither encourage nor discourage. We accept it. Accept it as we accept that spider web up there on the cornice. Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - to turn the choad of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.

Tel est le but de tout conditionnement. Faire aimer aux gens la destination sociale à laquelle ils ne peuvent échapper.

It's going to happen, and one's a fool if one doesn't prepare for it. (About death)

The outcome has already been established in the afterwords — hoc erat in votis! — just as the ash is already in the wood about to kindle.

the world is really so small that everyone must of necessity meet everyone else

No se puede apagar el mar, cuando arde en la noche.

Il proiettile corre e non sa se ammazzerà qualcuno o finirà nel nulla, ma intanto corre e nella sua corsa è già scritto se finirà a spappolare il cuore di un uomo o a scheggiare un muro qualunque. Lo vede il destino? Tutto è già scritto eppure niente si può leggere.