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Quotes about Inevitability

It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes
- Publilius Syrus
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
- Steve Jobs
Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.
- Marcus Aurelius
Catholic priest Desiderius Erasmus coined the Latin phrase vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit. Translation: "Bidden or not bidden, God is here.
- Mark Batterson
All diseases run into one, old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.
- Billy Graham
Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As we should know, there is nothing inevitable about such things.
- NT Wright
The same fate awaits me too, and Oddball, and the Deer outside; one day we shall all be nothing more than corpses.
- Olga Tokarczuk
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
death is literally all around us. We cannot run and we cannot hide and we have no ability to defeat it. Death lives at our address, and there is no escaping.
- Paul David Tripp
That's how the world is, and there is nothing an insignificant nobody like you, or even a significant somebody like me, can do about it.
- Paul Hoffman