Facing the Inevitable Quotes

It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.

Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision.

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

I don't like it, but I guess things happen that way.

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.

With death comes honesty.

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

Paint yourself into a corner so that you don't have any other option but to continue forward.

And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.