Inescapable Outcome Quotes

The fates will lead you to the future or drag you there.

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

In the end, the Wheel crushes us all.

I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.

It's better to accept destiny.

This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which confessedly belongs to the term necessity, it is unconditionalness. That which is necessary, that which must be, means that which will be, whatever supposition we may make in regard to all other things.

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.

Humans are powerless, and even in our exercise of free will, either the Universe is gonna get down with your plan, or it isn't.

Our words must seem to be inevitable.

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.

To say that we're doomed is just an obvious remark.

Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

No man can be stronger than his destiny.

The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.

The problem with freedom is that you just can't go back. Once people see what it means to be free people, you can't go back. So they're going to keep nattering on about this and that, and maybe they'll make another stab at de-funding the fabulous Planned Parenthood or something of the sort. To my mind, it's just not going to work.