Quotes About Inevitability

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.

The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.

Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.

Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.

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.

Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.

O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.

After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.

Death is life's one great certainty

à force de voir tant de films, tant de gens s'aimer, tant de départs, tant d'enlacements, tant d'embrassements définitifs, tant de solutions, tant et tant, tant de prédestinations, tant de délaissements cruels, certes, mais inévitables, fatals, déjà ce que Suzanne aurait voulu c'était quitter la mère.

It's as if this must be not only what she expects, but also what had to happen especially to her.

You're going to die of death. Your death has already begun.

You build a tower then you also build the chance it will fall. To think of life as a foolproof is a falacy of fools, he thought. Things happen, he believed, and there's nothing you can do to keep them from occuring.

She had followed her father's thoughts back to that old bitterness, and the bitterness simmered in his half-closed eyes as he reflected on the inevitability of his disappointment.

Death is another story. I will never make a joke about death. It is beyond my powers.

But some things, no matter how unlikely, are just supposed to happen. You know what I mean. Some things just smack of the future and feel part of an overarching rightness.

But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.

I suggest you resolve yourself to your fate

In psychological terms, the Buddha's first truth, for instance, is really about the inevitability of our own humiliation. His insights challenge us to examine ourselves with a candor that we would prefer to avoid.

You're always condemned to die. It's just a matter of timing.