Quotes About Inevitability

No ship can out sail death

One can die but once. Dim died before he was born.

Of this crisis in my life, I remember chiefly a sense of tremendous inevitability, a feeling that fate was settling its own problems, and too much reflection would be out of place.

In the end most things in life—perhaps all things—turn out to be appropriate.

senior housing facilities are a way to own income-producing real estate that is also tied to what I call a "demographic inevitability": a wave of 76 million baby boomers who are aging and will require the use of these facilities.

Death comes for us. You may get ten minutes on this earth or you may get eighty years but nobody gets out alive. Accepting this rule gives me a funny flicker of peace.

But in a strange way, I am comforted by the truth. Death comes for us. You may get ten minutes on this earth or you may get eighty years but nobody gets out alive. Accepting this rule gives me a funny flicker of peace.

For this alone is lacking even to God, to make undone the things that have once been done. (Quoting Agathon)

no on of intelligence resents the inevitable.

no one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

It had to happen to someone. There is nothing exceptional about you, any more than there is about the first neutron that starts the chain reaction in an atomic bomb. It simply happens to be the first. Any other neutron would have served

the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death….

But they knew in their hearts that once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization… Childhood's End - Ch. 15

He was not the first man, Cliff Leyland told himself bitterly, to know the exact second and the precise manner of his death.

once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…

Todo viene en círculo. [...] La vieja rueda se vuelve, y el mismo discurso se repite. Todo ya ha sido hecho antes, y lo será de nuevo.

The truly terrible things are those one cannot alter, to which one is indefinitely committed.

It was going to happen sooner or later, in any case, Eleanor said. But of course no matter when it happened it was going to be my fault.

People have to live and die somewhere, after all

Dying is the same all over. It's death that kills them.

Everyone owes nature a death.

Death makes cynics of us all

By depriving Rejewski of the keys, Langer believed he was preparing him for the inevitable time when the keys would no longer be available. He knew that if war broke out it would be impossible for Schmidt to continue to attend covert meetings, and Rejewski would then be forced to be self-sufficient. Langer thought that Rejewski should practice self-sufficiency in peacetime, as preparation for what lay ahead.

the first axiom in flight school: takeoff is voluntary, but landing is compulsory.