Inevitability Quotes

This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning.

~ Michael Ondaatje

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

~ Terry Eagleton

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

~ Pablo Neruda

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.

~ H. Rider Haggard

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

~ Nadine Gordimer

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...

~ Stanisław Lem

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

~ Derek Landy

We are all equally capable of spiritual awakening. It may not seem that way, at times. Some of us are so caught up in the drama of our day-to-day existence that we have lost track of who we really are. But eventually, all of us will make the discovery of our true nature.

~ Victor Shamas

To observe life as an inevitability and to observe the nuanced stratification of life are two completely different points of view on life.

~ Eraldo Banovac

He had been reborn into the knowledge of death; and the inescapability of change, of things-never-the-same, of no-way-back, made him afraid. When you lose the past you're naked in front of contemptuous Azraeel, the death-angel. Hold on if you can, he told himself. Cling to yesterdays. Leave your nail-marks in the grey slope as you slide.

~ Salman Rushdie

And where do I go? Where on Earth does a person go when she realizes there's no place for her? You can't possibly try to fit in, because if you do, if you manage to carve out some beautiful niche of happiness for yourself, then one day it will be taken from you as surely and truly as the sun rises each morning.

~ Kelly Thompson

If we could learn to look instead of gawking,We'd see the horror in the heart of farce,If only we could act instead of talking,We wouldn't always end up on our arse.This was the thing that nearly had us mastered;Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men!Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard,The bitch that bore him is in heat again.

~ Bertolt Brecht

... murder wol out

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

~ Núria Añó

This world is your world but that doesn't mean you can always stop it from burning.

~ Oli Anderson

You can deny him, he thought, watching his father across the table. You can hate him, love him, pity him, never speak to or look at him in the eye again, never deign even to be in his crabbed and bitter presence, but you're still stuck with the son of a bitch. One way or another he'll always be your daddy, not even all-powerful death was going to change that.

~ Ben Fountain

I know very little about darkness, Mr Bowden, except that we cannot stop its coming.

~ Anna Freeman

In spring, the snow must go; in fall, the leaves can't stay.

~ Marty Rubin

Dissociation of the mind into logic-tight compartments is by no means confined to the population of the asylum. It is a common, and perhaps inevitable, occurrence in the psychology of every human being. Our political convictions are notoriously inaccessible to argument, and we preserve the traditional beliefs of our childhood in spite of the contradictory facts constantly presented by our experience.

~ Bernard Hart

Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.

~ Núria Añó

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

The ripe apple falls, it doesn't know what else to do.

~ Marty Rubin

Sometimes there is nothing you can do.

~ Neil Gaiman

Suffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script.

~ Johnny Rich

The future is certain. It is just not known.

~ Johnny Rich

What'd you think would happen when you died? That the prophecy would just be over and we'd all be like, oops, guess we got that one wrong?

~ H.m. Ward

In that moment I’m able to accept the inevitability of how I feel, though not with joy. I need to talk to someone. I need to trust someone. And for whatever reason, I know, I know it’s her.

~ Veronica Roth

Isn't it ironic that when you accept sadness is an inevitability of the human condition you feel happier?

~ Rylee Harrison

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

~ Jamaica Kincaid

I'm beginning to feel as though everything has happened before, that our story has already been told. Just as we were powerless to stop the fox stealing the chicken, so there seems to be an inevitability to all that takes place at Mosel. This is a ghost story. And we have somehow become the ghosts of these young men who worked this estate before the Great War. The living are the dead.

~ Helen Humphreys

You could have kept on driving and never looked back. No one's ever had to stop for me. Or even hear me. Anyway, you did, and now I'm afraid the time for choice is behind us both.

~ Caitlín R. Kiernan

It does not matter what kind of self-destruction you choose – as if the protagonists in Furmani – Sokolov let say conscious of inevitability of their ontological and eschatological destiny, which they by no means want to change, but they accept it with joy of their own and peculiar optimism. Someone buries herself/himself in the library, and someone in a suburban tavern – they would say – the result is the same. The starting point is always that of futility, and the ultimate goal is destruction, which leads to self-destruction of all that restrains them from the total immersion in their own suffering and the pain of their own existence.

~ Ivo Žurić

It's the not-yet in the now, the taste of the fruit that does not-yet exist, hanging the blossom on the bough.

~ Laurens Van Der Post

Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's just too bad.

~ Jincy Willett

. . .the sorrows of the heart yearn to be erased, for one final atonementfinite and forgetting and whole—but time in its preservingwill not permit forgetting; destroyingonly when we can no longer begor argue with time to preserve the brief benisonsa few moments longer than our sins

~ John Daniel Thieme

The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.

~ Jacob M. Appel

Death could be waiting for him, but he wasn’t afraid. Whether it be sooner or later, he welcomed the inevitability with open arms.

~ Craig R. Key

. . . Thisis not the same river at my fingertips. There are no paths, no sunken roadsfamiliar in the forest, by which we canretrace our steps, by which we can escapeby which we can reclaim and return, or hear the child’s song running in the timothy . . .

~ John Daniel Thieme

Part of the apparently conventional nature of our relationships is the threat of separation and death. This body dies. That body dies. We can rejuvenate, feel better, live longer, but, even so, in this world everybody dies. That is why we do spiritual practice, because we are conscious of the destiny of our separation. We are willing to fulfill the law of love, but on the other hand what we love dies. That is why this is one of the realms of suffering. This world is not a heaven. This is not a place of fulfillment. Thus, we must yield to the true Condition. We must not become dependent upon the conventional aspect of our relations. We must recognize our relations. We must identify with the Condition of the loved one.You must become established in the real Condition, or you will never be satisfied. You will be driven to all kinds of preoccupations and great schemes, trying to become victorious or immortal, for immortality's own sake, simply because you cannot deal with the fact of death. But death is an absolute message in this realm. It obligates us to recognize or identify one another in Truth, and we are not relieved of that obligation in this place.

~ Adi Da Samraj

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

~ Robert Jordan