Life Quotes by Marilynne Robinson

“It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.”

— Marilynne Robinson

You have to live with your mind your whole life.

— Marilynne Robinson

“Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“How I wish you could have known me in my strength.”

— Marilynne Robinson

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient

— Marilynne Robinson

That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them.

— Marilynne Robinson

“I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does…

— Marilynne Robinson

... but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever…

— Marilynne Robinson

“I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be…

— Marilynne Robinson

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.

— Marilynne Robinson

“Open a book and a voice speaks. A world, more or less alien or welcoming, emerges to enrich a reader’s store of…

— Marilynne Robinson

I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to…

— Marilynne Robinson

“There’s a lot under the surface of life, everyone knows that. A lot of malice and dread and guilt, and so much…

— Marilynne Robinson

...if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace…

— Marilynne Robinson

I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my…

— Marilynne Robinson

“I've shepherded a good many people through their lives, I've baptized babies by the hundred, and all that time I have felt…

— Marilynne Robinson

“I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say,…

— Marilynne Robinson

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak…

— Marilynne Robinson

“...when we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish…

— Marilynne Robinson

I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is impossible not to…

— Marilynne Robinson

“All bread is the bread of heaven, her father used to say. It expresses the will of God to sustain us in…

— Marilynne Robinson

And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Since supper was three kinds of casserole with two kinds of fruit salad, with cake and pie for dessert, I gathered that…

— Marilynne Robinson

That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And…

— Marilynne Robinson

“If the Lord chooses to make nothing of our transgressions, then they are nothing. Or whatever reality they have is trivial and…

— Marilynne Robinson

“I would say, for the moment, that community, at least community larger than the immediate family, consists very largely of imaginative love…

— Marilynne Robinson

She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's…

— Marilynne Robinson

“I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected -…

— Marilynne Robinson

I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does…

— Marilynne Robinson

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected —…

— Marilynne Robinson

“I have been thinking about existence lately. In fact, I have been so full of admiration for existence that I have hardly…

— Marilynne Robinson

“If there is anything in the life of any culture or period that gives good grounds for alarm, it is the rise…

— Marilynne Robinson

“It has seemed to me sometimes as though the Lord breathes on this poor gray ember of Creation and it turns to…

— Marilynne Robinson

“The minute that you start thinking about someone in the whole circumstance of his life to the extent that you can, he…

— Marilynne Robinson

The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this.

— Marilynne Robinson

“I have spent years of my life lovingly absorbed in the thoughts and perceptions of . . . people who do not exist.”

— Marilynne Robinson

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm…

— Marilynne Robinson

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the…

— Marilynne Robinson

That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems,…

— Marilynne Robinson

The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing…

— Marilynne Robinson