Anne Carson Quotes

Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

Men speak of blind destiny, a thing without scheme or purpose. But what sort of destiny is that? Each act in this world from which there can be no turning back has before it another, and it another yet. In a vast endless net. Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in the maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life.

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

There is no suspense in inevitability.

When it's your time, it is your time.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

As certain as death and taxes.

Necessity has its own rules

The ball game; it had to be the ball game.

What exists, exists. You cannot change that.

What must be shall be.

Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.

Stern is the visage of necessity.

Everything that has happened had to happen. Everything that must happen cannot be stopped.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you.

The expansion is inevitable.

What is not possible is not to choose.