inevitability quotes

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.