Quotes About Inevitability

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

Six feet of dirt make all men equal.

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

Time, tide, and comets waited for no man.

They wouldn't have

Fenris was a giant wolf of Norse mythology who, it was prophesied, would return one day to fuck everything up, and such were the ground rules of that mythos that there was nothing the gods could do about it).

It is the destiny of stars to collapse.

Our Society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of. It's an inevitability tourists can't help but realize when visiting Mayan ruins, Egyptian ruins, Roman ruins. How long will it be before someone is visiting American ruins?

no man prepar'd for it; no man consider'd it would come like a Thief in the night, exactly as it happens in the case of death.'74

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

She could put off the inevitable but at a terrible cost.

You want to come to me. You know you have to come to me.Nothing can stop you. It is inevitable,like the tide. There can be no turning back.

You never hear the bomb that's got your name on it.

In one way, I suppose, I have been in denial for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

To the dumb question Why me? the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?

I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and now have succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

all children are born into a losing struggle with death

Death is] one thing one is certainly born to do.

A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.

What will be will be.No one can escape fate's design.