Quotes About Inevitability

The Second Law of Thermodynamics: If you think things are in a mess now, just wait!

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

Face it, George – unlike cholera, death is the only disease everyone is guaranteed to get.'Heath nodded slowly. 'But usually only once, Hamish. Usually only once.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

If it's your time to go, it's your time to go.

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when our time's come we must go.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.

All men have their appointed time; that's something no horse can change.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

When it's time, it's time … and it's time.

Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

You see, we are all dying. It's only a matter of time. Some of us just die sooner than others.

Nae man can tether time nor tide.

ha! They will get to that place soon enough.

Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.

Nothing was anything until someone defined it. Nothing was inevitable. Nothing was inviolate. Everything existed, perhaps, by the act of faith, and we were always in the midst of creating our world, complete with the trappings of tradition that was nothing more than an invention like all the rest.

And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic...A thousand other things can be said about [this Savage Garden], but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.

Just as sure as this flesh is pink, it will turn gray, wrinkled with age

And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic. And in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.

And then I realized that all humans were created for death. They were all born as little struggling innocents, learning to live before they knew what it was about.