Quotes about Inevitability

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

I was so sure it would happen. That the past was an abused record with no choice but to repeat itself at the crack and no power on earth could lift the arm that held the needle.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

Six feet of dirt make all men equal.

To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is already fulfilling it to-day.

But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.

The straight warp of necessity, not to be swerved from its ultimate course— its every alternating vibration, indeed, only tending to that; free will still free to ply her shuttle between given threads; and chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines of necessity, and sideways in its motions directed by free will, though thus prescribed to by both, chance by turns rules either, and has the last featuring blow at events.

And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.