Quotes About Inevitability

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

After the first death, there is no other.

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.

Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

The most important thing you do in your life is to die.

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.

While life could be evaded, death could not.

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down.

Life is uncertain; death is certain.

My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.

How remorseless life is!

Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Sure, Death was going to find him sooner or later, but it seemed as though Death were taking the scenic route to get there.

No one here gets out alive.

But you'll be back. I know you will. You won't be able to let us go now.

And Yarvi realized that Death does not bow to each person who passes her, does not sweep out her arm respectfully to show the way, speaks no profound words, unlocks no bolts. The key upon her chest is never needed, for the Last Door stands always open. She herds the dead through impatiently, needles of rank or fame or quality. She has an ever-lengthening queue to get through. A blind procession, inexhaustible.

When the past and the present converge to make us who we are today, there is no escaping destiny.

Et plus je l'ignorais, plus je tombais amoureuse de lui. C'était exactement comme je te disais tout à l'heure, comme une maladie. Tu sais comment ça se passe... Tu éternues. Une fois. Deux fois. Tu frissonnes et voilà. C'est trop tard. Le mal est fait. Là, c'était la même chose : j'étais prise, j'étais fichue.

Death was just as close, but not behind him; it was everywhere. It was inescapable; he felt death's physical presence—as if death itself were something alive. Like in the old pictures, a creature that can hide behind a bed of asters or behind a baby carriage and can come out and touch you.

No one will ever make necessity not happen.