157 Quotes by Mary Renault

All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow ispurged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No onewill ever make a tragedy-and that is as well, for one could not bear it-whose grief is that the principalsnever met.

It is a grief to see a hero go down to the house of Hades. It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Solo hay un sobresalto peor que el totalmente inesperado, el esperado para el cual uno se ha negado a prepararse.

Sintió ese tipo de falsa resignación que puede engañarnos cuando contemplamos los contratiempos en un momento en el que no los experimentamos.

―Siempre me ha parecido que una de las preguntas más absurdas del mundo es: «¿Estás salvado?». Para contestar uno ha de sonar o bien esquivo y derrotista o demasiado complaciente.―Creo que yo dije que solo puede esperarse lo mejor, pero a ella le pareció evasivo.

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.