#inevitability

I have produced no children of my own and my husband is dead," she replied, an acid tone in her voice. "Thus I am more to be pitied than revered. I am expected to give up the shop to my nephew, who will then be able to afford to bring a very good wife from Pakistan. In exchange, I will be given houseroom and no doubt, the honor of taking care of several small children of other family members." The Major was silent. He was at once appalled and also reluctant to hear any more. This was why people usually talked about the weather. ↗

— Helen Simonson

#family #family-relationships #inevitability #pessimism #relationships

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#always #avoid #back #bed #better

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do. ↗

— Golda Meir

#inevitability #old-age #age

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. ↗

— Núria Añó

#ageing #aging #aging-gracefully #economy #getting-older

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 up the works of man. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#fallen-nations #futility #inevitability #knowledge #learning

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

#dying #inevitability #life #living #death

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first. ↗

— Derek Landy

#anything-is-possible #apple #everything-is-possible #gravity #inevitability

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable. ↗

— Jamaica Kincaid

#inevitability #life #life

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#inevitability #success #life

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#before #coming #conscience #far #had