Quotes About Inevitability

Voy a terminar en un hoyo en el suelo —dice él—. Y tú también. Como todos.

Death was one sure way to find peace, Rhage thought. And everyone died. Even vampires. Eventually.

The past is safe because it is indelible.

True enough. I say this all the time. Trez looked at his hands. "I didn't ask for this." "No one asks for life." The executioner hiked iAm's body up higher. "And sometimes they do not ask for death...

That which cannot go on will not.

And now that the Fade was upon him, he was resigned to his death.

I have learned long ago, there is no negotiating with destiny.

That was the great irony. In life, everyone was a snowflake of separate and beautiful proportion, but when death came in and grabbed hold, you were left with anonymous skin and muscle and bone, all of which cooled and decayed at predictable rates.

You're going to kill me anyway. —

El destino no era fácil, pero al final ofrecía su recompensa. Con el tiempo, todo lo que pasaba era exactamente lo que debía pasar.

And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.

I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.

the cause of death is birth

mind filled with work and a soul fortified with the knowledge of the inevitability of loss—and so goodbye sweet journal, adieu calm book, may the best hearts find you.

We must accept the capitalistic stage in social evolution as about on a par with the earlier monkey stage. The human had to pass through those stages in its rise from the mire and slime of low organic life. It was inevitable that much of the mire and slime should cling and be not easily shaken off.

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class seems completely unable to respond to it.

Whatever we try - to be rich, to be happy - death is unavoidable. It doesn't matter how much money you have; it doesn't matter how much love you have. At the end of the day, it's all heading that way.

Some last words seem flat-out unbelievable.

The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.

War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.