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Quotes About Inevitability

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.
~ Arthur Koestler
nothing dies of old age. Everything dies of something.
~ Arturo Arias
por mucho que nuble, la sombra siempre termina despuntando cosida a los pies de uno. Y nadie puede escapar de su propia sombra.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Hay cosas que no se pueden eludir, Corso. Hay castillos que deben arder y hombres que ahorcar; perros destinados a despedazarse entre sí, virtudes que decapitar, puertas que se han de abrir para que otros pasen por ellas...
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
A fin de cuentas, se consoló, por mucho que duela y tardes en morir, al final siempre te mueres. Y quien muere, descansa.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
He did not want to think, but it was inevitable that he would.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
You are impossible. You are only a realist, and therefore nothing happens to you.
~ August Strindberg
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
~ Austin O'Malley
Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.
~ Clint Eastwood
You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.
~ Karl Pilkington
There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death.
~ Stephen Evans
For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.
~ Garth Nix
discoveries happened because they needed to happen. He
~ Gary Paulsen
any life ending in death is essentially pointless.
~ Gary Shteyngart
Life is essentially a fatal disease of indeterminate duration.
~ Gene Weingarten
All beds became deathbeds at last.
~ Gene Wolfe
There is something in all of us that has always been dead," I said. "If only because we know that eventually we will die. All of us except the smallest children.
~ Gene Wolfe
The game is nearly over,' she whispered. 'That is what I came to tell you. Did you think it would go on forever?
~ Gene Wolfe
Life is tough, then you die.
~ George Carlin
Ah," said Dolly, with soothing gravity, "it's like the night and the morning, and the sleeping and the waking, and the rain and the harvest — one goes and the other comes, and we know nothing how nor where. We may strive and scrat and fend, but it's little we can do arter all — the big things come and go wi' no striving o' our'n — they do, that they do;
~ George Eliot
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
~ George Herbert
Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.
~ E. T. A. Hoffmann
I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.
~ J. J. Abrams
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
~ Bertrand Russell