Quotes About Inevitability

Alors, elle s'aperçut qu'elle n'avait plus rien à faire, plus jamais rien à faire... La douce réalité des premiers jours allait devenir la réalité quotidienne qui ferait la porte aux espoirs indéfinis,aux charmantes inquiétudes de l'inconnu. Oui, c'était fini d'attendre. Alors plus rien à faire aujourd'hui, ni demain, ni jamais.

Egyedül a halál bizonyos.

Lovecraft also likes to play with the idea of fate. In many of Lovecraft's stories the protagonist is not in control of his own actions but must follow the path of fate. Many of his characters would be free from danger if they were simply able to run away but this is not possible as the course of their fate must be followed.

Again there was manifest that lure and driving of fatality which had all along seemed to direct my course.

Grant, for reasons perhaps partly inborn and partly acquired, rarely revisited choices once made. He planned according to the information at hand; he prepared for all reasonable contingencies; he decided what to do as events unfolded. Then, calm in the conviction that he could have done no more, he accepted what destiny delivered.

On olemassa kasvoja, joilla on valtaa ihmisen ylitse siihen saakka, kun hän jonakin kauniina päivänä loppuu.

Acceptance of the inevitable, a sign of a wise man.

I'm not going to stop digging," Myron said. Wickner adjusted his cap again and began to walk away. "Then more people are going to die." There was no threat in his tone, just the stilted, pained timber of inevitability.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

The thing is, with century breaks, maximums, ranking tournaments, these sorts of things are automatically going to be broken: it's not if but when.

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

These trees and these old people have one thing in common - they're both going in the ground soon!

It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

Shakespeare has Julius Caesar reflect that: Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

As you are now, so I once was As I am now, so will you be

Chance is as relentless as necessity.

No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us

And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.

My mother's idiosyncratic definition of the word is the following: we all suffer and we all die."Never, ever," my mother said to me when I was eleven,"say 'pass away' for 'to die.' People die. They don't evaporate.