Inescapable Quotes

121 quotes by 106 authors

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one… — Rollo May
One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it. — Jimmy Buffett
Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an… — Robert A. Heinlein
That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly, though, things werenâ€™t so clear.… — Sarah Dessen
We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life… — Wendell Berry
What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was. — Walter de La Mare
We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave… — Edna O'Brien
The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted… — William Golding
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know… — James A. Baldwin
One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all I had seen,… — Octavio Paz
In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Her name rang in Will's mind like the chime of a bell; he wondered if any other name on earth had such an inescapable resonance… — Cassandra Clare
I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. — Wallace Stevens
Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it. — David Levithan
Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to… — Ian Mcewan
That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love.… — Ben Sherwood
Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as… — Jim Butcher
Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence â€” the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under… — Jon Krakauer
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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