{"quotes":[{"text":"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 contemptuous Azraeel, the death-angel. Hold on if you can, he told himself. Cling to yesterdays. Leave your nail-marks in the grey slope as you slide.","author":"Salman Rushdie","tags":["change","death","inevitability","rebirth","reincarnation"],"id":7987,"author_id":"Salman+Rushdie"},{"text":"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.","author":"H. Rider Haggard","tags":["everything-is-meaningless","fallen-nations","futility","inevitability","knowledge","learning","man","mankind","materialism","nations","passing-of-time","time"],"id":21385,"author_id":"H.+Rider+Haggard"},{"text":"Death could be waiting for him, but he wasn’t afraid. Whether it be sooner or later, he welcomed the inevitability with open arms.","author":"Craig R. Key","tags":["death","death-and-dying","fearless","inevitability","suicidal"],"id":36935,"author_id":"Craig+R.+Key"},{"text":"Anything can happen: anything. Or nothing. Who can say? The world, monstrous, is made that way, and in the end consumes us all. Who am I, administrated or no, to have the audacity to survive it?","author":"Brian Evenson","tags":["giving-in","inevitability","possibility"],"id":40757,"author_id":"Brian+Evenson"},{"text":"... Murder wol out.","author":"Geoffrey Chaucer","tags":["futility","humanity","inevitability","murder"],"id":54977,"author_id":"Geoffrey+Chaucer"},{"text":"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 need to trust someone. And for whatever reason, I know, I know it’s her.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["beatrice","four","inevitability","love","trust"],"id":57764,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"Isn't it ironic that when you accept sadness is an inevitability of the human condition you feel happier?","author":"RyLee Harrison","tags":["hope","human","human-condition","inevitabilities","inevitability","irony","irony-of-life","sadness"],"id":67639,"author_id":"RyLee+Harrison"},{"text":". . . Thisis not the same river at my fingertips. \tThere 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, or hear the child’s song running in the timothy . . .","author":"John Daniel Thieme","tags":["cant","disappointment","escaping","futility","inevitability","reclaiming","remembering","remembering-the-past","retrace","returning","time"],"id":69784,"author_id":"John+Daniel+Thieme"},{"text":"The ripe apple falls, it doesn't know what else to do.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["destiny","inevitability","necessity","ripeness"],"id":73683,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"It's the not-yet in the now, the taste of the fruit that does not-yet exist, hanging the blossom on the bough.","author":"Laurens van der Post","tags":["hope","inevitability","patience"],"id":77983,"author_id":"Laurens+van+der+Post"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":46,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}