Inescapability Quotes

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.

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

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.

I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.

One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

No one will ever make necessity not happen.

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

Before he fought Billy Conn, Joe Louis said, 'He can run, but he can't hide.' That's how I feel about New York: You can run from it, but you can't hide.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

There's no answer for my offense, just like the polythagorean theorem.

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins. It always wins because it is everywhere. It is in the wood that burns in your hearth, and in the kettle on the fire; it is under your chair and under your table and under the sheets on your bed. Walk in the midday sun, and the dark is with you, attached to the soles of your feet. The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

You'll see me everywhere, inside, outside. Only place you won't see me is maybe safety.

I ushered souls into the next world. I was the grave of all hope. I was the ultimate reality. I was the assassin against whom no lock would hold. - "Yes, point taken, but do you have any particular skills?"

It is impossible to take politics out of politics.

And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

No man is invincible.

Stern is the visage of necessity.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly.

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.