77 Quotes About Inevitability
- Author Jincy Willett
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Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's just too bad.
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- Author Hanya Yanagihara
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[He] was anxious about something, but he knew: he was worried because to be alive was to worry. Life was scary; it was unknowable.
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- Author Brock Clarke
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You know what else he said?" Anne Marie asked."Tell me," I said. I didn't want to know, of course, but she was going to tell me anyway, so why not invite in the inevitable, which is why, in the movies, vampires have to be asked inside by their victims and always are.
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- Author Craig R. Key
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Death could be waiting for him, but he wasn’t afraid. Whether it be sooner or later, he welcomed the inevitability with open arms.
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- Author Eraldo Banovac
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To observe life as an inevitability and to observe the nuanced stratification of life are two completely different points of view on life.
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- Author John Daniel Thieme
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. . . Thisis not the same river at my fingertips. There are no paths, no sunken roadsfamiliar in the forest, by which we canretrace our steps, by which we can escapeby which we can reclaim and return, or hear the child’s song running in the timothy . . .
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- Author Jacob M. Appel
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The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.
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- Author John Daniel Thieme
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. . .the sorrows of the heart yearn to be erased, for one final atonementfinite and forgetting and whole—but time in its preservingwill not permit forgetting; destroyingonly when we can no longer begor argue with time to preserve the brief benisonsa few moments longer than our sins
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- Author Homer
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However, what is done is better left alone, though we resent it still, and we must curb our hearts perforce...as for my death, when Zeus and the other deathless gods appoint it, let it come.
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