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Quotes About Inevitability

History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.
~ Enoch Powell
Laugh not at the dead, for the corpse at your feet is prophetic of your own destiny.
~ Mamur Mustapha
When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
A war regarded as inevitable or even probable and therefore much prepared for has a very good chance of eventually being fought.
~ Anais Nin
There is no such thing as inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
~ Bonar Law
The inevitableness the idealism and the blessing of war as an indispensable and stimulating law of development must be repeatedly emphasized.
~ Anonymous
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
~ John Donne
Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.
~ Chanakya
The beauty of things must be that they end.
~ Jack Kerouac
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.
~ Jack Kerouac
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.
~ T. S. Elliot
Oto nadchodzi koniec ?wiata. Oto nadci?ga, zbli?a si? czy raczej przype?za mój w?asny koniec ?wiata. Koniec mego osobistego ?wiata. Ale zanim mój wszech?wiat rozpadnie si? w gruzy, rozsypie na atomy, eksploduje w pró?ni?, czeka mnie jeszcze ostatni kilometr mojej Golgoty, ostatnie okr??enie w tym maratonie, ostatnie kilka szczebli w dó? albo w gór? po drabinie bezsensu.
~ Tadeusz Konwicki
Fate is fate," Stark said. "It's there. It doesn't change. We just don't see it until we walk into it. Or it walks into us.
~ Takashi Matsuoka
What will happen will happen, whether you know of it or not. Believe me, it is not always better to know." "Knowing must be better," Shigeru said. "Then no one can take you by surprise." "Someone will always take you by surprise, because no matter how much you know, you can never know everything.
~ Takashi Matsuoka
Some stuff is gonna find a way to happen; once it's got started, you can't stop it no matter what you do.
~ Tana French
At some point, Paul vaguely realized, technology had begun for him to mostly only indicate the inevitability and vicinity of nothingness. Instead
~ Tao Lin
Some things were inevitable. You'd have to be a fool to think otherwise.
~ Tayari Jones
There should be a word, I thought, for this experience when you're surprised but at the same time the moment feels completely inevitable.
~ Tayari Jones
Everyone living is doomed
~ Taylor Caldwell
Each moment follows inexorably from the previous one and is followed inexorably by the next, links forged in a causal chain.
~ Ted Chiang
Porque si la duración de un universo es calculable, no lo es la variedad de vida que se genera. […] nada de eso puede predecirse, porque nada de eso era inevitable
~ Ted Chiang
I hope that you were motivated by a desire for knowledge, a yearning to see what can arise from a universe's exhalation. Because even if a universe's life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not. The buildings we have erected, the art and music and verse we have composed, the very lives we've led: none of them could have been predicted, because none of them was inevitable.
~ Ted Chiang
Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.
~ Paul Mooney