77 Quotes About Inevitability

He had been reborn into the knowledge of death; and the inescapability of change, of things-never-the-same, of no-way-back, made him afraid. When you lose the past you're naked in front of contemptuous Azraeel, the death-angel. Hold on if you can, he told himself. Cling to yesterdays. Leave your nail-marks in the grey slope as you slide.

— Let’s say that it’s a good idea to see these things as they are, in order to gain some necessary detachment...— He gave a sad little smile.— I know, I know - the hardest peace treaties are the ones one has to conclude with oneself.

I know very little about darkness, Mr Bowden, except that we cannot stop its coming.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.

We are all equally capable of spiritual awakening. It may not seem that way, at times. Some of us are so caught up in the drama of our day-to-day existence that we have lost track of who we really are. But eventually, all of us will make the discovery of our true nature.

Even night is a gesture, sleepa cog in its wheel of stars. Lie down.At some point you lie down.

It's the not-yet in the now, the taste of the fruit that does not-yet exist, hanging the blossom on the bough.

The size of an ending will never offset the inevitability of a beginning.

But solace also asks us very direct and forceful questions. Firstly, how will you bear the inevitable loss that is coming to you? And how will you endure it through the years? And above all, how will you shape a life equal to and as beautiful and as astonishing as a world that can birth you, bring you into the light and then just as you were beginning to understand it, take you away?