Quotes about Inevitability
If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
- Anonymous
I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
- Anonymous
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
- Anonymous
Wherever you may be, death will overtake you, though you should be in raised-up towers.
- Anonymous
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter.
- Anonymous
What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator.
- Anonymous
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
- John Donne
My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.
- John Donne
It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
The tragedy of the woman's death, and of his own share in it, were as nothing in the disaster of his bright irreclaimableness.
- Edith Wharton
It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough.
- Albert Camus
Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.
- Reinhold Niebuhr