Quotes About Inevitability

so let the earthquake come, let it bury me and my sins, so who the hell cares? No good to God or man, die one way or another, a quake or a hanging, it didn't matter why or when or how.

But he's dying". "Who isn't?

young desire it, the middle aged are not averse, the old alone are opposed to it [and they soon] will die.

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.

We are all dying of life.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all—plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change. Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.

Of all the different ways we reassure ourselves, the least comforting is this: it's already too late.

Death comes to all of us in the end.

There is nothing glorious in dying, anyone can do it.

In the long run we are all dead

But the Beatles turned out to be one of the things you couldn't avoid, like alcohol, or death.

Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable

Vincent, whom Kusanagi-Jones had managed to avoid for the duration of the voyage by first taking to cryo-damn the nightmares-and then restricting himself to the cramped comforts of his quarters…whom he could avoid no longer.

Any intimations of Fate, like a step heard on the stairs, makes some natures want to crouch in the safe dark.

[O]ne of my favorite Sufi poems... says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.

It was foolish to indulge in elaborate preconceptions: anticipation was a featherweight, doomed to compete with the inevitable, convincing bulk of reality. The trouble was that one had to face reality without knowing beforehand precisely what it was to be. One had somehow to discover and tread the hard, between the sloughs of fearing the worst and hoping for the best.

because what good would it do when a true understanding of what was in store for them couldn't save them from any of it?

By the time the utter predictability of my orgasm sank into my brain, it had, of course, long been familiar to my body. There was no mistaking the power this man had over me. Like a well-made windup toy, whenever he set me in motion I came. Moods of wanting or not wanting to make love were moods I remembered as from a book. It was not a matter of insatiability but one of inevitability of response. He did what he did and then I always, inevitably, finally came. Only the preludes varied.

It is vital that you do not change the path before you. I have told you, many times, that certain events must happen in a person's life for a reason, always for a reason. The events that will unfold before you...they must happen, Heather. They have to.

So life goes on, I thought. (And now I think: It goes on, until it doesn't.)

And he could not believe it. He really could not believe it. It was not unlike falling off his bicycle so many years ago when he was a child, the slow sense of something terrible happening, and the knowledge that there was nothing he could do about it. Watching the pavement come up to meet his cheek.

So life goes on, I thought. (And now I think: It goes on, until it doesn't.)