Quotes About Inevitability

He's going to die, isn't he? Stebbins said. Sure, McVies answered. They've all been dying, didn't you know?

Remember, when you die, there will still be unfinished business to take care of. And you know what? Someone else will do it for you! Don't waste any more precious moments of your life regretting the inevitable.

We're all alive the day before we die.

Young, middle-aged, elderly, old, dead: this was how life conjugated. (No, life was a noun, so this is how life declined. Yes, that was better in any case, life declined.

I can't do anything to you now, but time can. Time will tell. It always does.

The one thing that is very good in life today is death.

you begin lying to her. Why? Something to do with the need to create some internal space which you could keep intact—and where you could yourself remain intact. And this is how it is for you now. Love and truth—where have they gone? You ask yourself: Is staying with her an act of courage on your part, or an act of cowardice? Perhaps both? Or is it just an inevitability?

there was a sense in which he had no choice. He couldn't live with Susan; he couldn't establish a separate life away from her; therefore he went back to live with her. Courage or cowardice? Or mere inevitability?

he didn't feel pity for Macleod, despite all the humiliations and infirmities visited upon him. These he regarded as inevitabilities; indeed, he nowadays regarded most things that happened as inevitabilities.

Destiny. It was just a grand term for something you could do nothing about.

The thing I keep learning about endings is that they aren't a long time coming, and that they don't sneak up on you either, because endings just don't happen.

We're all trapped in a net of consequences, condemned to paths outside our control. It's the way of things.

Death snickers at us all, my dear. The eternal footman will not hold my coat forever.

All you could do was wait for death to make you inconsequential. Frank

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Needs must, and so on.

For rarely man escapes his destiny. [It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.]

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

Ain't no man can outrun his fate.

The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

Men cannot live forever But they must die forever.

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.