Quotes About Inevitability

There's only one thing that we have to do in life, and that is to die.

Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman

Probably death is the best invention of life.

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

Remember that we must all die: all these personal relations we try to live by are temporary. I used to feel death selected people, it is a notion one gets from novels, because some of the characters are usually left talking at the end. Now 'death spares no one' begins to be real.

You can do what you like, but the outcome will be the same.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

In Living in Spanglish I posit the coming of existence of this forwars-looking race that obliterates all races, stripping away Vasaconelos's petty resentment of Anglo culture and patronizing Euro-centrist, and acknowledge a cultural-economic inevitability that is hemispheric in nature. Note: Jose Vasaconelos wrote 1925 essay "La Raza cosmica" [The Cosmic Race] asserting, "Por mi raza hablara mi espiritu [The Spirit will speak through my race.

Love means you are completely helpless and there's nothing you can do about it except duck or plunge. But you can't change it, you can't change the way you feel.

The question was not whether the world would end but how soon the end would come.

He that is today a king tomorrow shall die.

What boots up must come down.

Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.

Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to draw to our end.

Xerxes did die,And so must I.

Not even the gods fight against necessity.

I am mighty, world-destroying Time.

I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Wherever you may be, death will overtake you, though you should be in raised-up towers.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator.

Studying ice crystals as a graduate student, he eventually found the basic design (equilateral, equiangled hexagon) so icily repeated, so unerringly conforming, that he couldn't help but shudder: Beneath the splendor--the filigreed blossoms, the microscopic stars--was a ghastly inevitability; crystals could not escape their embedded blueprints any more than humans could. Everything hewed to a rigidity of pattern, the certainty of death.

Now it is as if she can hear the pendulum in the air in front of her: that huge golden bob, as wide across as a barrel, swinging on and on, never stopping. Grooving and regrooving its inhuman truth into the floor.