We become the people we live with. Imperceptibly at first…

He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding…

— David Guterson

“We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy...We imbibed the…

— Timothy Snyder

“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself. History allows us to see…

— Timothy Snyder

“Thus, for our purposes, genes aren’t about inevitability. Instead they’re about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric of the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Part of the apparently conventional nature of our relationships is the threat of separation and death. This body dies. That body dies. We can…

— Adi Da Samraj

There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society…

— Sam Keen

“In that moment I’m able to accept the inevitability of how I feel, though not with joy. I need to talk to someone. I…

— Veronica Roth

I think my way of showing violence is unique from that of other filmmakers, in that when I show it, it hurts. It happens…

— Takeshi Kitano

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

“I'm beginning to feel as though everything has happened before, that our story has already been told. Just as we were powerless to stop…

— Helen Humphreys

“These things happen. And we say to ourselves, “Never again.” And a hundred years pass. And they happen. Again.”

— Qntm

Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.

— Marty Nemko

What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a natural law…

— Tom Robbins

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to…

— Patricia Briggs

“We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life’s dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are…

— Bill Bryson