“I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out ofexistence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.”
“Think about this: in all the stories I've ever heard, genies always want to get out of the bottle. And they do get out, sooner or later.”
“Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?”
“You can run,” Dorian said in a neutral tone that did nothing to lessen the intensity of hisexpression, “but sooner or later, you run out of places to run to.”
“What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you're in pain?”
“Sooner or later I may figure out why you like being a kept poodle.”