Quotes About Inevitability

If there can be three certain things in life, instead of two, it might be death, taxes, and data.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

There are certain inevitabilities. You will grow older. You will be forced to compromise in ways you never imagined and confront problems you thought you were immune to. You will find a job, and perhaps lose it. You will fight with your mate, shoulder unwanted responsibilities and cope with rank unfairness. You can allow all that to demoralize you. Or you can let it shape you… and trust that the shape will be more interesting because of it.

We all owe death a life.

But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

gave unto the gods what was the gods"' and recognized and accepted as inevitable mortal

Get ready to meet your maker. It won't be long now. Kisses! A (the real one)

Nae man can tether time or tide.

All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.

The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.

It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.

Once established, a successful style looks like an inevitability - maybe that's the definition of a successful style - but there's often the time when it looks like anything but.

Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.

So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

Men come and men go, I have come and I will go when my time comes

Your number was up the first time I met you.