Quotes About Inevitability

If? The word is when.

Spare me," he begged. "I do not want to die." "Few do. Yet all men die, regardless.

Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again, he said.

George R.R. Martin

There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is frozen by fear, bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds, the lion will have him, and he knows it.

Valar morghulis," said Missandei, in High Valyrian. "All men must die," Dany agreed,

All men must die. We are but death's instruments, not death himself.

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

There is no armour against fate; death lays his icy hands on kings.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. But when it comes it moves irresistibly.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

As we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

The changing year's progressive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

If the camel once gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow.

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.

Nuk luftohet nje fatalitet, e te arsyetosh per te eshte akoma me e kote

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

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

The point was, Eve supposed, no matter who you were—sex, race, tax bracket—death leveled it all out.

I figure it doesn't work that way. It finds you, and it grabs you by the throat and you can't do a damn thing about it.