Best Inescapable Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My love, we can close our eyes but we cannot stop the sunrise.”

“Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why should not their religion drive them to crucifixion of themselves and one another? he thinks.”

Religion Fighting Pleasure Violence Drinking Ecstasy Crucifixion Faulkner Inescapable Light In August

Author:William Faulkner

“I was dead. I knew I was dead, and there was no way out of it. I had consumed my last breath, and I would be aware for every second until my lungs gave out and my body betrayed me and I swallowed that fatal mouthful of water.”

Dying Sarah J Maas Feyre Feyre Archeron Dead Drowning A Court Of Mist And Fury Inescapable No Way Out

Book:A Court of Mist and Fury

Source: A Court of Mist and Fury

“You drive me back down my desperation—that unclouded incurable never forgotten evil growing inside my life.”

Evil Desperation Electra Sophocles Inner Turmoil Inescapable Incurable

Book:Electra

Source: Electra

“AGAMEMNON: Oh immovable law of heaven! Oh my anguish, my relentless fate! CLYTEMNESTRA: Yours? Mine. Hers. No relenting for any of us.”

Fate Tragedy Trapped Relentless Greek Tragedy Euripides Agamemnon Inescapable Iphigenia At Aulis Clytemnestra

Book:Iphigenia in Aulis

Source: Iphigenia in Aulis

“'What is the point of ducking?' says the old soldier to the young soldier. 'Each shot has a man's name on it anyway!' he laughs. 'Nothing you can do.'”

War Death Destiny Fate Soldiers Be My Wolff Emma Richler Inescapable Fated

Book:Be My Wolff

Source: Be My Wolff

“A tractor beam from the Imperial ship locked onto the shuttle and in seconds it became apparent they were being hauled in. The tractor was inescapable, and they knew it. The shuttle’s small yet potent engines struggled vainly against the irresistible pull. Inside, the Hammer and his men prepared to meet their fate.”

Fate Inside Knew Pull Potent Inescapable Hauled

Book:Dead Beckoning

Source: Dead Beckoning

“We had clear dreams while following our nightmare.”

Human Conformity Inevitability Inescapable

Book:URBANIMALITY: Fragments

Source: URBANIMALITY: Fragments

“And he thought, I shall go on blindly and secretly jumbling all these things together and making no sense of them as long as I live. Maybe every human creature carries some such inescapable burden. That is being human. A very weird affair.”

Human Burden Iris Murdoch The Green Knight Inescapable Impenetrable Jumbled Werid

Book:The Green Knight

Source: The Green Knight

“In fact, whenever Ben thought about it, his worry would slowly evaporate. But when he didn't think about it, it niggled and made him need to think about it again.”

Worry Irrepressible The Heavens Sandra Newman Inescapable Obsessive Thoughts

Book:The Heavens

Source: The Heavens

“No one, in the end, made it out of this life alive.”

Life Death Mortality City On Fire Garth Risk Hallberg Inescapable Unavoidable

Book:City on Fire

Source: City on Fire

“Don't you see we're all full of horrible power, working against each other however much we may love?”

Love Relationships Interaction Toxic Relationships Elizabeth Bowen The Death Of The Heart Inescapable

Book:The Death Of The Heart

Source: The Death Of The Heart

“You ran quite far and almost got away. But I set fire to your ghost, and the sweet, sick haze of that burning rose has found you out.”

Poetry Heaven Ghost Breakup Vivid Retribution Jill Alexander Essbaum Inescapable

Book:Heaven

Source: Heaven

“... my dreams were an undertow that dragged me down, down, down until I couldn't escape them.”

Dreams Sarah J Maas Feyre Feyre Archeron A Court Of Mist And Fury Nightmares Undertow Inescapable Dragging Down Dragged Down

Book:A Court of Mist and Fury

Source: A Court of Mist and Fury