Unalterable Reality Quotes

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Facts are stubborn things.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?

Do you know what is going to happen to Bobby? The same thing that happened to Jack.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

Even the gods cannot strive against necessity.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.

You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

It’s over, and can’t be helped, and that’s one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, ven they cut the wrong man’s head off.

It's better to accept destiny.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Reformers on the left and right alike must give up the fantasy that humans are blank slates who can be overwritten with ideal values, however discomfiting or disappointing the realization may be.

Whatever happens, however fast it's supposed to happen, it'll happen.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

As certain as death and taxes.

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

When good people do bad things, it is sad, but when they reach the point where one can predict that they will do nothing but bad things, a deeper kind of sadness sets in, almost at the level of resignation.