“ Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats… H. Rider Haggard
“ For the first time the Don showed annoyance. He poured another glass of anisette and drank it down. He pointed a finger at his son. You want to learn, he said. Now listen to me. A man's first duty is… Mario Puzo
“ He had been reborn into the knowledge of death; and the inescapability of change, of things-never-the-same, of no-way-back, made him afraid. When you lose the past you're naked in front of contemptuou… Salman Rushdie
“ To observe life as an inevitability and to observe the nuanced stratification of life are two completely different points of view on life. Eraldo Banovac
“ Isn't it ironic that when you accept sadness is an inevitability of the human condition you feel happier? RyLee Harrison
“ Dissociation of the mind into logic-tight compartments is by no means confined to the population of the asylum. It is a common, and perhaps inevitable, occurrence in the psychology of every human bein… Bernard Hart
“ After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. Terry Eagleton
“ I keep seeing my life darting off in the different directions it could have taken, as chance and circumstance, temperament and desire, open and close, open and close gates, routes, roadways.And yet th… Jeanette Winterson
“ Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I don't believe anything's really inevitable until it happens. We just call it inevitable to make ourselves feel better about it, to excuse ourselves for not having done anything. Lauren Willig
“ You know what else he said?" Anne Marie asked."Tell me," I said. I didn't want to know, of course, but she was going to tell me anyway, so why not invite in the inevitable, which is why, in the movies… Brock Clarke
“ . . . Thisis not the same river at my fingertips. There are no paths, no sunken roadsfamiliar in the forest, by which we canretrace our steps, by which we can escapeby which we can reclaim and return,… John Daniel Thieme
“ . . .the sorrows of the heart yearn to be erased, for one final atonementfinite and forgetting and whole—but time in its preservingwill not permit forgetting; destroyingonly when we can no longer bego… John Daniel Thieme
“ What is about to happen is not the reclaiming of Earth by a triumphant Mother Nature, a karmic repudiation of humanity's arrogant ill stewardship. Nothing we ever did mattered one way or another. This… Ben H. Winters
“ I could reply. I could tell him that a metaphor is inadequate in the face of a bloodbath. That a Platonic inclination for dying doesn't balance out the serious decision to kill. That through the ages… Mihail Sebastian
