Quotes about Inevitability
What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
I know that the future is scary at times. But there's just no escaping it.
- Ernest Cline
The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it's coming for you.
- Paul Washer
We're all going to die. And we have that in common with all these great men of the past that are staring down at us.
- Billy Graham
Death reduces all men to the same rank. It strips the rich of his millions and the poor man of his rags . . .Death knows no age limits, no partiality. It is a thing that all men fear.
- Billy Graham
Nations rise, they flourish for a time, and then they decline. Eventually every empire comes to an end; not even the greatest can last forever.
- Billy Graham
Of this at least I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time.
- St. Augustine
Death is a mighty, universal truth.
- Charles Dickens
Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.
- Hannah Whitall Smith
Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?
- Henry David Thoreau
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.
- Herman Melville