Quotes About Inevitability

So Time that is o'er-kind To all that be, Ordains us e'en as blind, As bold as she: That in our very death, And burial sure, Shadow to shadow, well persuaded, saith, See how our works endure!

You are born, you are a he or a she, and you live until you die... Willy-nilly.

Najgori mogu?i scenario uvek se oblikuje iza zavese, gde niko ne može da ga otkrije niti da ga primeti, i onda jednog dana, bum, to postaje tvoja stvarnost. A kada jednom postane stvarnost, prekasno je da se bilo šta uradi.

Vede bem, habitantes de Tebas, meus concidadãos! Este é Édipo, decifrador dos enigmas famosos; ele foi um senhor poderoso e por certo o invejastes em seus dias passados de prosperidade invulgar. Em que abismos de imensa desdita ele agora caiu! Sendo assim, até o dia fatal de cerrarmos os olhos não devemos dizer que um mortal foi feliz de verdade antes dele cruzar as fronteiras da vida inconstante sem jamais ter provado o sabor de qualquer sofrimento!

From the gods' perspective all ways are the same and all roads will be travelled in the end. It's only a matter of time.

proving once again that there was no escape from recurrence.

Will you love me when I get sick and start to fail, to descend, as is inevitable, toward death?" he said. "Do you really want to nurse a dying man and have to grieve for all the love you wasted on him?" "Love is never a waste," she said.

I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape it. I am of the nature to have ill health. There is no way to escape it. I am of the nature to die. There is no way to escape it. There is no way to escape being separated from everyone I love, and all that is dear to me. My actions are my only true belongings. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

To be thin-skinned, far-sighted, and loose-tongued," he said, "is to feel too sharply, see too clearly, speak too freely. It is to be vulnerable to the world when the world believes itself invulnerable, to understand its mutability when it thinks itself immutable, to sense what's coming before others sense it, to know that the barbarian future is tearing down the gates of the present while others cling to the decadent, hollow past. If

Philosophy, he jeered, was incapable of proving the existence of God, or even of proving the impossibility of there being two gods. Philosophy believed in the inevitability of causes and effects, which was a diminution of the power of God, who could easily intervene to alter effects and make causes ineffectual if he so chose.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in.

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Era venuto il momento di fissare lo sguardo sullo spettro implacabile che cammina a fianco di ogni creatura umana e che a ogni pulsazione del cuore le grida: Tu morrai

Evils which are patiently endured when they seem inevitable become intolerable once the idea of escape from them is suggested.

Certain things need not be said, and there's nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what's about to happen.

What is meant to be is bound to happen, whether or not you approve.

I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards.

All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.

Franny whispered to Haylin all that she ever was and had been. She told him that she had always known what the future would be, and he said that if what she said was true, then she should have known a very long time ago that this was meant to be.

You cannot unwrite a death that has been written.

In the last few months, she'd had a lot of time to consider the state of mankind, and she'd decided that people actually had very few choices in their lives. Most things happened to you. Most things rolled right over you and then kept on going.

Some things aren't destined to be no matter how you might want them.