Quotes About Inevitability

Doesn't everything," he says, "die at last and too soon?

You're never too young to die.

You are meant to be here. There are no coincidences. It's all happening the way it was meant to be.

Death is the same for the one who dies.

I had expected to die on many occasions before now. You might even say that death has been a companion of mine, always walking two steps behind. Well, now he has caught up.

I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.

Né e pazzi né e savi non possono finalmente resistere a quello che ha a essere: però io non lessi mai cosa che mi paressi meglio detta che quella che disse colui: Ducunt volentes fata, nolentes trahunt.

Francine Pascal

Past and future were out of her hands. One was finished and couldn't be undone. The other was beyond imagining.

The challenge of life, present for most of it but more dominant in the second half, is adjusting to loss or, more specifically, developing the judgment and grace not only to accept its inevitability but also to recognize that it's not the only trajectory, that there are many ways to meet and measure it and that there are consolations, including all that remains. Cherishing those leftovers—those holdovers—is the key to thriving, and sometimes even to surviving.

That girl! She was like a touch of destiny

And Paul saw how futile were any efforts of his to change any smallest bit of this. He had thought to oppose the jihad within himself, but the jihad would be. His legions would rage out from Arrakis even without him. They needed only the legend he already had become.

The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.

Las posturas necesarias te impiden adaptarte. Inevitablemente, crecen de forma inestable, inclinándose e inclinándose en un ángulo cada vez más acusado hasta que terminan derrumbándose. Es como los banqueros pensando que compran el futuro. «¡El poder en mi tiempo!» «¡Al diablo con mis descendientes!»

how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.

The universe neither threatens nor promises. It holds things beyond our sway: the fall of a meteor, the eruption of a spiceblow, growing old and dying. These are the realities of this universe and they must be faced regardless of how you feel about them. You cannot fend off such realities with words. They will come at you in their own wordless way and then, then you will understand what is meant by "life and death.

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers," Paul said. "Nothing. Nothing can be done.

make the determinism certain.

The meaning of life is that it ends.

I want to live as long as I can, and die when I can't help it.

Leop­ards break in­to the tem­ple and drink all the sac­ri­fi­cial ves­sels dry; it keeps hap­pen­ing; in the end, it can be cal­cu­lat­ed in ad­vance and is in­cor­po­rat­ed in­to the rit­ual.

Then his head sank to the floor of its own accord and from his nostrils came the last faint flicker of his breath.

I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.