Quotes About Inevitability

What goes up, must come down... Mustn't it?

Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last

Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like ships driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish

Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

But when a god sends harm, no man can sidestep it, no matter how strong he may be.

What will come will come. Even if I shroud it all in silence.

Look through all humanity: you'll never find a man on earth, if a god leads him on, who can escape his fate.

vengeance no one outruns

Once you are born in this world you're old enough to die.

All lives end, but not all conclude.

How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.

We die, because we live.

The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did.

I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?

DEATH COMES SLOWLY LIKE ANTS TO A FALLEN FIG

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.

Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day.

Aversion to change is denial of destiny.

We're all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.

The meaning of life is that it ends

It's not that people don't know when they'll die. It's that they don't seem to know they'll die.

It is fate, damn destiny, that has its way with us.