Quotes About Inevitability

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

We all try to increase our length of life, but we all have to pass. It's highly interesting as a lyricist.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

she swung like a pendulum, ticking away the seconds until she would be dead.

Komm, geh mit angeln, sagt der Fischer zum Wurm.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

All deaths seem terrible to the one who dies.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable.

hangimiz, kaç?n?lmaz oldu?u bilinen ?eyler kar??s?nda bile, kendini biraz daha aldatmaktan, bu kaç?n?lmazdan kaç?labilece?i, belki de bu korkular?n ba?a hiç gelmeyece?i umuduna -bütün bo?lu?unu bilerek- kap?lmak çocuklu?unu göstermekten utanç duydu?

But if pressed, I'd have to say that what I love most about the subways of New York is what they do not do. One may spend a lifetime looking back—whether regretfully or wistfully, with shame or fondness or sorrow—and thinking how, given the chance, things might have been done differently. But when you enter a subway car and the doors close, you have no choice but to give yourself over to where it is headed. The subway only goes one way: forward.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

With 'Get Hurt,' we wanted to see where else we could go with the band. We thought it was time to change things up a bit. The song itself is similar to the feeling of a wreck you see coming, but long past the point you can avoid it.

It's inevitable: as I get older, I am going to get more wrinkles; it's something you have to accept.

Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang established physics. Stars and planets were cooked up as huge clouds of matter collapsed and coalesced.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Sooner or later we grow into deserving our own deaths, somehow.

After all, a book can be set aside for weeks, or for good. (Burned in the grate.) Alternatively, a story can be adored for centuries. But it cannot be derailed. A plot, whether abandoned by a reader or pursued rapturously, remains itself, and gets where it is headed even if nobody is looking. It is progressive and inevitable as the seasons. Winter still comes after autumn though you may have died over the summer.

Such killings were part of the natural order of things, an inevitable consequence of belonging to a royal household.