A Quote by Katherine Anne Porter

we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.

Katherine Anne Porter

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Come Know Uninvited

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Katherine Anne Porter
American - Novelist
May 15, 1890 - September 18, 1980

Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.

Bret Stephens

I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.

Gary Allan

I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'

Gary Allan

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

Stephen King

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Ramakrishna

The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always zero. It is ice in the veins. It's camera is an x-ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own.

R. S. Thomas

Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.

Howard Thurman

When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

We are the ghosts of the singing furies .

Conrad Aiken

People's Fury is above all the furies.

Chanakya

In fact, one of the funny stories from that set [of Hail, Caesar!] is we were shooting my scene, and around lunchtime, Terrence Malick shows up on set. He was uninvited and no one knew who he was. But I knew, just looking at him. I was like, "Holy moley, that's Terrence Malick!" So I went and told the PA, "Hey, Terrence Malick is here, and I think he wants to see the Coen brothers. He wants to talk to Joel and Ethan." He just showed up unannounced, uninvited, and I guess they spent their lunch hour with him.

David Krumholtz

Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no contest. Sadness carries identification. You know where it's been and you know where it's headed. Depression carries no papers. It enters your country unannounced and uninvited. Its origins are unknown, but its destination always dead-ends in you.