Talk:Moirai

Quotes about the Moirai:

Three other women sat in a circle at equal distances, each on her own throne: they were the Moires, daughters of Ananke, Lachesis, Clotho, and Atropos, dressed in white and with their heads girded with bandages; on the harmony of the Sirens Lachesis sang the past, Clotho the present, Atropos the future. (Plato)

Even the gods had to submit to the cruel decrees of the Fates. (Stephen Fry)
– Who governs necessity?
– The Moires who weave the thread and the Erinyes with implacable memory.
– And Zeus is weaker than them?
– Even Zeus cannot escape what is destined. (Aeschylus)
I imagine them as three hags with hollowed-out cheeks, dressed in black rags, sitting in a cave babbling and nodding their heads as they spin, and instead many sculptors and poets depict them as pink-cheeked maidens, with white tunics and a modest smile on their lips. (Stephen Fry)
But why does she who spins day and night | The distaff had not yet drawn them | which Clotho imposes on each one and compiles (Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy)
Then Momo gave birth, the ever-sorrowful Misery, | the Hesperidi, who cares, beyond the immense Oceàno, | they have golden apples, trees heavy with fruit, | and the sorrowful Moires, who inflict cruel torments, | Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis, who to all mortal peoples | the good, as soon as the light comes, they share, and the evil, | and of the past the punishments inflict on men and on the gods. | Nor do these Divas ever desist from tremendous indignation, | before they inflict on every one the punishment as he has failed. (Hesiod)
He married the soft Tèmi seconda, che a luce da' l'Ore, | He says, with Eunomía, with Mighty Peace — on the work | they are always watching over men — and the Fates, | to whom the Chronicle bestowed the greatest honour: Lachèsi | Atropos and Klotus: good go to men and evil. (Hesiod)

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