Quotes About Inescapable

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it, it went over you and you came out flat.

People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed.

Anthropomorphism, I've decided, is inescapable, and though I might try to hide it I no longer fight it.

God's presence is the one inescapable fact of human life. We will encounter him in one way or another. Those who make a place for him find him to be the glue that holds everything together. Those who ignore him find their lives to be askew and cannot understand why. They have left out the most crucial factor in the equation of their lives, so that everything will always be unbalanced. The Lord God is either a sanctuary to dwell in or a stone to stumble over.

And the applause functions, then, in part, to pacify, narcotize, the resulting violent and inescapable discomfort.

It's everywhere. It's right on top of us. It coils around us like a snake. We're all inside it. It's already swallowed us whole.

I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape.

That's the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief

What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy. He never goes away.

Love it or loathe it, you can never leave it or lose it.

I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it was inescapable.

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

Death and taxes are the only two certainties in life, as Mark Twain once said. Or was it Benjamin Franklin?

So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.

But here the stink was over-powering. It was as if you walked through it, around in it. It was everywhere and inescapable. I did not find out right away what the smell really was.

Desire, like the dead or an unpleasant meal, would keep returning--it was ultimately indigestible.

Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.

Within depression, if my existence is on the verge of collapsing, its lack of meaning is not tragic--it appears obvious to me, glaring and inescapable.

Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.

Kino pulled the covers up, shut his eyes, and covered his ears with his hands. I'm not going to look, not going to listen, he told himself. But he couldn't drown out the sound. Even if he ran to the far corners of the earth and stuffed his ears full of clay, as long as he was still alive those knocks would relentlessly track him down. It wasn't a knocking on a door in a business hotel. It was a knocking on the door to his heart. A person couldn't escape that sound.

a person's mind is controlled by his body, right? Or is it the opposite—the way your mind works influences the structure of the body? Or do the body and mind closely influence each other and act on each other? What I do know is that people have certain inborn tendencies, and whether a person likes them or not, they're inescapable. Tendencies can be adjusted, to a degree, but their essence can never be changed.

Na verdade é terrível - disse e escreveu o Velho. - Isso significa o final sem final. Vamos entrar no círculo do Eterno Retorno. E dele ninguém pode fugir.

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

Mental note: no torturer in a dungeon cell ever devised anything as frustrating, as inescapable, as terrifyingly pointless as a conversation with a drunk.