Mary Renault Quotes

Best Quotes by Mary Renault (Top 10)

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
Mary Renault
The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.
Mary Renault
There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.
Mary Renault
A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.
Mary Renault
It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.
Mary Renault
One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.
Mary Renault
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
Mary Renault
Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.
Mary Renault
Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.
Mary Renault
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.
Mary Renault

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
Mary Renault
How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?
Mary Renault
All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.
Mary Renault
Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces.
Mary Renault
All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy - and that is as well, for one could not bear it - whose grief is that the principals never met.
Mary Renault