Irreversible Quotes

“Instead of kneading our habits into irreversible certainties and fidgeting in the boredom of our comforts, let us fantasy and creativity come to their own and brighten our days. ("Skyward, over and above")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“When we are unaware of the substance and importance of our choices, we may fall victim to errors of omission or missed opportunities. If awareness arrives too late, the actions we have not taken or the words that were left unspoken may squeeze us into an irreversible void. Lateness can imply irredeemable failure. ("Island of regret.- Island of remorse.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“This is the enemy, what is irreversible, what has already reached the farthest of places. There is no going back. They can bomb bus-loads of tourists, burn the American flag, but they are not shooting the enemy. It is already with them, inside them, what makes them resentful, defensive, what makes them no longer confident of their vision of the world.”
― Leila Aboulela, The Translator

“Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.
Put out the light, and then put out the light:
If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,
I can again thy former light restore,
Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,
Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,
I know not where is that Promethean heat
That can thy light relume.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“The horrors of the past lose their edge, and in the doing they blind us to a world careening toward a darkness beyond the bitterest speculation. It's sure to be interesting. When the onset of universal night is finally acknowledged as irreversible even the coldest cynic will be astonished at the celerity with which every rule and stricture shoring up this creaking edifice is abandoned and every aberrancy embraced. It should be quite a spectacle. However brief.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“What happens slowly carries in each part the possibility of returning to what came before. In an accident everything is simultaneous, sudden, irreversible. It means this: no going back.”
― Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers

“Mankind has created many religions; most of them are long gone now and finally all will long gone! This truth is an irreversible truth!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“He would never be that way again. He would never have the power of that specific kind of not-knowing.”
― Catherine Lacey, The Answers

“Anything irreversible should be granted the ‘everything’ of our attention.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You'll come back but you'll always be different.

- From everyone else, or who I used to be?

Both.

- But I would see the moon.

You would see the moon.”
― Marie Rutkoski, Ordinary Love

“Unterschwellig wächst die Angst, irgendwann zu verstehen und nie wieder vergessen zu können, nicht mehr in der Lage zu sein, ins eigene Leben zurückzukehren.”
― Juli Zeh, De stilte is een geluid: Een reis door Bosnië

“No path is irreversible; you just return back and walk!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Platov said that the burning of Moscow has changed the world forever, it has changed Russians forever, landowner and serf, officer and peasant, all souls, nobody will ever think the same again, and Aleksei tried to fathom it, irreversible change, but it was raining in his head, as that Prussian fellow at the next table kept moaning.”
― Emma Richler, Be My Wolff

“We must retain for the event its radical definition and its impact in the imagination. It is characterized entirely, in a paradoxical way, by its uncanniness, its troubling strangeness - it is the irruption of something improbable and impossible - and by its troubling familiarity: from the outset it seems totally self-explanatory, as though predestined; as though it could not but take place.
There is something here that seems to come from elsewhere, something fateful that nothing can prevent. It is for this reason, both complex and contradictory, that it mobilizes the imagination with such force. It breaks the continuity of things and, at the same time, makes its entry into the real with stupefying ease.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact

“The mark of a fool is their inability to see that the destruction of what they’re creating always outpaces the thing that they’re creating. Inevitably such an irreversible descent leads them to believe the devastation as being the creation. And that may well be the epitome of the fool.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Seconds are irreversible, but memories take us back to the seconds in which the memories were recorded.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih