Quotes About Inevitability

well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you

you shoulda known the entirety of the trap, a**hole, love means eventual pain victory means eventual defeat grace means eventual slovenliness, there's no way out...you see, you understand?

there's all that time to eat drink and wait on death like everybody else.

well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you…

Since if past performance charts mean anything I'll surely go first the last way.

as you are stuck in your poor body and in your poor life and it's all slowly dissolving, dissolving into nothing. like all the other bodies, like all the other lives, we all are being counted out, taken down by disease by just being rubbed up against the hard days, the harder years. there's no escaping this, we just have to take it, accept it— or like most— not think about it. at all.

there is of course madness and terror too in knowing that some part of you wound up like a clock can never be wound again once it stops.

La muerte les llega a los que esperan y a los que no.

Well, we all ended up dead, that was just mathematics.

Now I'm thinking that dying is such a strange and ordinary thing.

Sometimes I think death is even more inevitable than taxes, his grandmother replies bleakly. Humans don't live in a vacuum; we're part of a larger pattern of life.

Becoming a monster sometimes isn't a choice that you have. We're all that; we're all 'the other' in one way or another.

Even 'The Inevitability of Death' is kind of a funny song more than anything. I mean, I thought it would be funny imagining radio deejays cueing it up and announcing it as people are driving off to work.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

We are mortals, we will die one day.

It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable.

They'll die, and then they'll be dead.

In proclaiming the inevitability of this type of world, we help to make it inevitable, to make the status quo all the more unassailable. In this way, the strategy of cynical embrace of the society of enjoyment is every bit as flawed as the nostalgic attempt to return to a previous epoch. Both positions share a fundamental refusal to recognize their own complicity with the society of enjoyment.

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

Well, he us a nab, he is mortal, death comes to us all, etcetera, and consequently he would have died anyways, sooner or later. Or to look at it from the social point of view - he's just one man among many, the loss would be well within reason and convenience.

Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it: we may seize the moment, toss it around while the moments pass, a short dash here, an exploration there, but we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact --

I was so sure it would happen. That the past was an abused record with no choice but to repeat itself at the crack and no power on earth could lift the arm that held the needle.

It wasn't death, or dying, that frightened him but the unexpectedness of both.