Quotes About Inevitability

But at my back I always hear / Time's winged chariot hurrying near

Time is the web, and Fate is the spider.

Everyone dies. It's a question of where and how, that's all.

The trouble with the First World War, for example, is that people think war was inevitable, but I don't agree. If you look at the Cold War, you could argue that a war was bound to happen between the Soviet Union and its allies and the United States and its allies, but it didn't.

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of person who makes things, there is no profit in worrying about how or why or when the next project will come into being beyond simply acknowledging that it is inevitable that it will be very soon.

It will be written on my tombstone in very large letters, 'Here lies Hikaru Sulu,' and in very tiny letters, 'aka George Takei.' I don't protest the inevitable.

I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.

What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.

si realmente podemos esperar toda la eternidad, hasta las cosas más improbables acabarán sucediendo.

He steepled his fingers in monkish solemnity. "You cannot hide from Fate, my son." Sarah grunted. "People don't have fates." "No: fates have people," Jet said, suddenly serious.

But I'm quite sure of one thing: If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.

There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.

There is an awful feeling of inevitability to life. Maybe this feeling is some proof of the existence of fate... or more likely it's simply the way our brains function that gives us this illusion. It's hard to say for certain.

Tell you now children—you're all gonna die. No hand stamp reentry, no refund, no lie. —Found written on a bathroom stall in Disneyland, June 6th, 1988

The only guarantee we are given when we are born is that we will die.

And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.

Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.

One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.

Time is not ours and we would not own it. It does not wound us to say so.from the prose poem INNOCENCE

Life is an activity with which we kill time while we wait for something, someone, or the mere passage of time to kill us.

Time is a universal regressor, time will prove everything