Quotes About Inevitability

La mort nous guette et elle est toujours assurée de sa prise. Il ne sert à rien d'y songer sans cesse, mais, dans nos entrailles dans nos os, nous savons tous qu'elle est là. Tous sauf les humains.

death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make. Am I right?

But when all roads lead to death, there is no point to running down any of them.

I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

This composite placement is not saying that the relationship is good or bad, nor that it is in pain. It is merely stating a fact: the full potential of the relationship can never be reached because something was irrevocably damaged long before the two individuals were born.

Back and back and back. Jonas repeated the familiar phrase. Sometimes it had seemed humorous to him. Sometimes it had seemed meaningful and important. Now it was ominous. It meant, he knew, that nothing could be changed.

Change is a function of time and experience, and time is implacable.

Yet if all things end, even despair must, too. Not in my lifetime. But sometime.

All that is is so because it was to be. Rail not, therefore, against what is, for it was all to be.

Someday, like everybody, this man you truly love like no other is going to die. No matter how much you love him, you cannot save him. No matter how much you love: nothing, no one, lasts.

Zaten eninde sonunda her insan?n ba??na gelir bu, sizi s?n?fland?r?rlar.

Agora, eu ia arrastado, nesta fuga em massa, para a morte em comum, para o fogo… Isto vinha das profundezas mais recônditas e tinha acontecido.

NO MAN KNOWS the hour of his ending, nor can he choose the place or the manner of his going. To each it is given to die proudly, to die well, and this is, indeed, the final measure of the man.

Under a quiet sky the planet turned, and horses ate, and men slept, and death waited for morning. —

Man was born to die. It is our promise at birth.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

It's like the tide, Jo, when it turns it goes slowly--but it can't be stopped.

I can't do it. I wasn't meant for a life like this, and I know I shall break away and do something desperate if somebody doesn't come and help me," she said to herself, when her first efforts failed and she fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

He'd felt incredibly lucky they'd found one another, though Serena had already told him their meeting wasn't mere good fortune but inevitability.

La cotidianeidad tiene estos lazos, el entrañamiento del aire que se respira a dos, del sudor que se mezcla, la ternura animal de lo irremediable.

la vida siempre acaba mal? Según una tradición gitana, si acudes a un festejo social, a una boda, a un bautizo, no debes desear felicidades, como es habitual, sino «malos principios». Porque, con sabiduría milenaria forjada por unas condiciones de vida difíciles, conocen que la desgracia es inevitable en la existencia; y entonces prefieren desear que la cuota de dolor venga primero, para que así el final sea venturoso.

On the contrary, she was aware only of a sort of timelessness, as though it was all part of a plan, a predestined design, conceived the day she was born. What was happening to her had been meant to happen, what was going to go on happening. Without any recognizable beginning, it did not seem possible that it could ever have an end.

She always answered the questions in a vague fashion, partly because she didn't want to discuss the matter, and partly because she didn't know exactly how she did feel. Only that she had known, always, that life would be like this, because this was how it was for every British India family, and the children absorbed and accepted the fact that, from an early age, long separations and partings would, eventually, be inevitable.