Marianne Moore Quotes

Neither the sword of popes, nor the cross, nor the image of death — nothing will halt the march of truth.

Even the gods cannot strive against necessity.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Fate will find a way.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

I think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen.

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.

The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.

Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

This door's wide-open now. It's going to happen whether you like it or not.

There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob that won't turn, a door that sticks and never budges, is a nuisance to the gods. The gods may kick in the jamb. Worse, they may walk away in disgust, leaving us to hang dumbly from our tight hinges, deprived of any other chance in life to swing open into unnecessary risk and thus into enchantment.

There are some things in the world we can't change.

We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.

Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

No one can escape his destiny.

The tide tarrieth no man.

But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.