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Quotes About Inevitability

nothing vast enters the lives of mortals without ruin
~ Anne Carson
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A certain amount of risk is inevitable, whatever we do, and I cheer myself up in difficult times with the statistic that most accidents happen in the home.
~ Anne Mustoe
There are many possible futures, but only one past. This makes the past feel inevitable, as even the tiniest of twigs now looks like the thickest of branches because it's the only thing you can see.
~ Annie Duke
Hindsight bias adds to the ruckus caused by knowing the outcome, distorting your memory of what you knew at the time of the decision in two ways: You did know what was going to happen—swapping out your actual view at the time of the decision with a faulty memory of that view to conform to your postoutcome knowledge. You should (or could) have known what was going to happen—to the point of predictability or inevitability.
~ Annie Duke
Aujourd'hui, je sens réellement le temps reculer vers la réception de demain, c'est-à-dire m'emporter vers la vérité, que je lirai dans ses paroles et son comportement, sans que je puisse résister.
~ Annie Ernaux
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Why long for death's marriage bed which human beings all shun? Death comes soon enough and brings an end to everything.
~ Euripides
You gave birth to your own death.
~ Euripides
The final end of death comes fast. No need to pray for that.
~ Euripides
but it is impossible to avoid what is fated; no one can repel it by wisdom, but he who is hasty without purpose will always have trouble;
~ Euripides
certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore
~ F. Paul Wilson
So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Daddy's girl. Was it a 'itty-bitty bravekins and did it suffer? Oooooo-tweet, de tweetest thing, wasn't she dest too tweet? Before her tiny fist the forces of lust and corruption rolled away; nay, the very march of destiny stopped; inevitably became inevitable, syllogism, dialectic, all rationality fell away
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
We drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Astfel alunecam spre moarte,prin amurgul din care caldura zilei pierea treptat.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
E assim avançámos rumo à morte, pela frescura do crepúsculo
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Le temps ne progresse que dans un sens et, qu'on le veuille ou non, il vous entraîne avec lui.
~ Fannie Flagg
Death is a bend in the road, / To die is to slip out of view. from "23 May 1932
~ Fernando Pessoa
If Fate decrees it should happen, so be it. I feel curious about emotions. About facts, whatever they might be, I feel no curiosity whatsoever.
~ Fernando Pessoa
De rivier stroomt voort, uiteindelijk. Zonder eerste druk. En de bries die blaast, Zo vanzelfsprekend ochtendlijk, Heeft, daar ze tijd heeft, geen haast...
~ Fernando Pessoa
Infine, sarà quel che dovrà essere.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Ah, l'orrore di morire! E trovare il mistero faccia a faccia senza poter evitarlo, senza potere...
~ Fernando Pessoa
que pesa duramente na alma: é a estupidez que sacrifica vidas e haveres a qualquer coisa inevitavelmente inútil.
~ Fernando Pessoa