Quotes About Inevitability

for things without remedy must be without regard.

You can't change what's meant to be

A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one.

For a long while the past drops away from you easily and it would seem automatically, properly. Its scenes don't vanish so much as become irrelevant. And then there's a switchback, what's been all over and done with sprouting up fresh, wanting attention, even wanting you to do something about it, though it's plain there is not on this earth a thing to be done.

You're dead and you have to accept it.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew it had begun.

From childhood to youth is eternity, from youth to manhood, a season. Age comes in a night and is incredible.

It always catches people by surprise, the moment of their death, even when they should see it coming. They always think they're special, somehow expect a reprieve. But no one's special.

Death waits for us all. But she takes the lazy first.

Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit. He

The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.

I don't intend to rush at the grave, believe me." "Few do. The grave swallows us all regardless.

He never had any choices.

But there's no beating the Great Leveller. No man comes back from the mud.

The universal law is that the most frustrating thing will always happen, no matter how unlikely.

Sooner or later a black car came for everyone.

After six hours in the car, he felt no panic, only a kind of numb wonder. On some level he had come to view his situation as almost natural. Sooner or later a black car came for everyone. It came and took you away from your loved ones, and you never got to go back.

everyone always dies in the middle of a good story, in a sense. Your own story. Or the story of your children. Or your grandchildren. Death is a raw deal for narrative junkies." Around

I trust the sun to rise and the sun to set, though I know one day it will do these things without me.

Look at that house, so quiet and willing. If there is a good way to die, that's it out there. Graceful and calm in the face of inevitability. It feels generous, almost. Beauty and reassurances are not for ourselves. Of course death will come. And of course there is no good way to die. There is no peace. A weight will not lift. A leaf will not fall. But we can pretend.

Judge if you want. We are all going to die; I intend to deserve it.

Death is not the end. Death is the credits rolling. The movie was over a while ago.

We can see the mushroom cloud and we are going to die soon, no matter what we do or eat or say. I wish I had known this all along.

We're all going to die, love. I don't know anyone who's gotten out of this life alive