Quotes About Inevitability

People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside.

Simplemente, hazte a la idea, me digo. En este caso, pensar no sirve de nada. Nada de todo esto está en tus manos. Lo veas como lo veas, no puedes resistirte. Se ha decidido en otra parte.

He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the barest traces of what had once been a life. His body was like a dilapidated old house from which all furniture and fixtures have been removed and which awaited now only its final demolition.

People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. Nobody can escape it. People have to pay the price for what they've received. I have only just learned that truth.

Problems begin the moment we're born. We're born with infinite possibilities, only to give up on one after another. To choose one thing means to give up another. That's inevitable. But what can you do? That's what it is to live.

I'm beginning to feel as though everything has happened before, that our story has already been told. Just as we were powerless to stop the fox stealing the chicken, so there seems to be an inevitability to all that takes place at Mosel. This is a ghost story. And we have somehow become the ghosts of these young men who worked this estate before the Great War. The living are the dead.

I feel like whatever is meant is meant. I feel like this is already written.

How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

The eight years of war since 9/11 had meant several Christmases away from home for most of these men. For soldiers at war, there's comforting continuity in the traditions and inevitability of Christmas.

We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.

I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off.

You see, we are all dying. It's only a matter of time.

If there were any way of sheltering from death's blows—I am not the man to recoil from it . . . But it is madness to think that you can succeed . .

We all gotta salute death one time or 'nother girl. Death be waitin' outdoors trying to get inside.

All the roads of life end in death.

There is no longer waiting for anyone, but for death.

We have a lot of thoughts throughout our entire life, but ultimately we get all to the conclusion of a single thought: Death!

Who can hide himself from death or who can embrace the wind?

Life is a long agonised illness only curable by death

To feed death with her works is here life's doom.

Of this at least I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time.

We do not see our hand in what happens, so we call certain events melancholy accidents when they are the inevitabilities of our projects, and we call other events necessities merely because we will not change our minds.