Quotes About Inevitability

The moment you're born you're done for.

Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be.

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.

I was raised with the idea that I was born dying. That with every breath you take, you get closer to your last. It's something I've always known.

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

I'm not gonna make 65. Let's just face facts, guys.

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

They rule, not because they want to, but because they are; they are not at liberty to play second.

Our thoughts, values, every yes, no, if and but grow from us with the same inevitability as fruits borne on the tree?all related and each with an affinity to each, and evidence of one will, one health, one soil,one sun.

For, why is the triumph of Nihilism inevitable now? Because the very values current amongst us to-day will arrive at their logical conclusion in Nihilism,—because Nihilism is the only possible outcome of our greatest values and ideals,—because we must first experience Nihilism before we can realise what the actual worth of these "values" was....

Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what could have happened, is a necessary element in trying to understand what did happen. And if, as I believe, individual acts of decency and courage make a difference, then they need to be recorded and remembered.

La fatalidad nos hace invisibles

Fatality makes us invisible.

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

Everyone dies. You needn't go on about it so.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

Once you're born, the worst has already happened.

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

No one rules the world forever, the gods grow jealous. If someone is constantly successful or too powerful - be it Alexander or Napolean or Hitler - the gods will eventually destroy him.