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Quotes About Inevitability

For rarely man escapes his destiny.
~ Ludovico Ariosto
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
~ Samuel Butler
A man can die but once.
~ William Shakespeare
No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.
~ Ammianus Marcellinus
Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Only against death does man cry out in vain.
~ Malcolm Lowry
Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
~ Robert Greene
No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
~ Homer
What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.
~ John Milton
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter, "Beware. You will never get out of this world alive."
~ John Steinbeck
And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the day that we are born.
~ Stefan Zweig
Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.
~ James Shirley
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
~ Terry Eagleton
the words become inevitable through my connection with their meaning,
~ Terry Gross
Sur son trône d'airain le Destin qui s'en raille Imbibe leur éponge avec du fiel amer, Et la Nécessité les tord dans sa tenaille.
~ Theophile Gautier
Death is one of the most cretin things in live we have to prepare ourselves for it one day
~ the omani shed
Let us ask whether medicine is winning the war against death. The answer is obviously no, it isn't winning: the one fundamental rule of human existence remains, unfortunately, one man one death.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
What is best and most necessary usually happens.
~ Knute Nelson
Not even Ares battles against necessity.
~ Sophocles
Death is always sad, but it's also inevitable
~ Nicholas Sparks
In other words, it is impossible: we cannot function properly, and the evening ends in confusion and awkwardness, and very early.
~ Nick Hornby
Así pues, él hizo lo más difícil que había hecho en su vida: cogió el sombrero y se fue. Y si el hombre que una vez fue el chico que prometió no enamorarse de ninguna otra muchacha mientras viviera cumplió su promesa, no fue por terquedad, ni siquiera por lealtad. No pudo evitarlo.
~ Nicole Krauss
If a leader merely carried out what historical forces made inevitable, it is not the person that mattered, it is the moment in time
~ Nigel Hamilton
Death doesn't really feel eventual or inevitable. It still feels... avoidable somehow. But it's not. We know in one part of our brains that we are all going to die, but on some level we don't quite believe it.
~ Nora Ephron