Quotes about Inevitability

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.

everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway. But even so, it's nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination.

What is to be, will be, said Mrs. Rachel gloomily, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.

You are going to die like a dog for no good reason

I don't want to fool with it but what choice have I got? They don't give you any choice now. I can let it go; but what will the next thing be? I didn't ask for any of this and if you've got to do it you've got to do it.

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.' Damned fine, eh?

If one must die, he thought, and clearly one must, I can die. But I hate it.

Your nationalities do not show when you are dead.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

We drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.