Quotes About Inevitability

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.

All say, How hard it is that we have to die—a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

In verità, non aveva molto senso sospirare perché lei non era ancora nata. Ma noi siamo fatti così, non ragioniamo quando siamo presi da un sentimento: sentiamo e basta.

I'm so tired. Sleep's been stalking me for too long to remember. Inevitable I suppose.

The paramedics said there was nothing unusual, just the way it goes, eighty some years and the inevitable kerplunk, the system goes down, lights blink out and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.

Slowly but surely, I grew more and more disoriented, increasingly more detached from the world, something sad and awful straining around the edges of my mouth, surfacing in my eyes. I stopped going out at night. I stopped going out. Nothing could distract me. I felt like I was losing control. Something terrible was going to happen. Eventually something terrible did happen.

One sinking ship after another, in fact that was the conclusion to every single story he told, so that we, his strange audience, learned not to wonder about the end but paid more attention to the tale preceding the end, those distinguishing events before the inevitable rush of icy water, whirlpools . . .

especially when you're the one pursued by the inevitable ending.

Here's a small fact. You are going to die.

Un pequeño detalle: Morirás.

I'm compelled to continue on, because although it's not true for every person on earth, it's true for the vast majority—that death waits for no man—and if he does, he doesn't usually wait very long.

HERE IS A SMALL FACT *** You are going to die.

I'm compelled to continue on, because although it's not true for every person on Earth, it's true for the vast majority that death waits for no man and if he does, he doesn't usually wait very long.

al menos los humanos tienen el buen juicio de morir.

Un pequeño detalle Morirás.

I think: you deserve to be what you are if you could bear to get that way. You must have seen it coming. And now there's nothing for you here.

El tiempo se dirige ahora hacia algo. Se derrama hacia atrás sin que nada lo pueda evitar, como los reflejos en el parabrisas de un automóvil que corre por la ciudad o el bosque.

Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of [people] willing to be co-workers with God.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.