Time Quotes by Marilynne Robinson

“Their lives spun off the tilting world like thread off a spindle, breakfast time, suppertime, lilac time, apple time.”

— Marilynne Robinson

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.

— Marilynne Robinson

The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.

— Marilynne Robinson

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

— Marilynne Robinson

“Sometimes the visionary aspect of any particular day comes to you in the memory of it, or it opens to you over…

— Marilynne Robinson

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

— Marilynne Robinson

Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.

— Marilynne Robinson

“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“I wanted to double-check with you that your mailing address is still the same as the one you sent us back in…

— Marilynne Robinson

When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present…

— Marilynne Robinson

Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am…

— Marilynne Robinson

“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more…

— Marilynne Robinson

“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is…

— Marilynne Robinson

When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Again, all any heart has ever said, and just as the word is said the moment is gone, so there is not…

— Marilynne Robinson

“I am saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own, not, so to speak, the mustache and…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Your mother goes to the public library, which has been down on its luck for a long time, like most things around…

— Marilynne Robinson

The model for our early bankruptcy laws was Deuteronomy, the idea that, under certain circumstances - in Deuteronomy, it is simply the…

— Marilynne Robinson

“She knew better than to waste that time. There isn't always someone who wants you singing to him or nibbling his ear…

— Marilynne Robinson

I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics…

— Marilynne Robinson

Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying…

— Marilynne Robinson

People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in…

— Marilynne Robinson

[John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where…

— Marilynne Robinson

I think I am like most people in letting myself worry about things that didn't matter. Concepts like quotidian and humdrum prevented…

— Marilynne Robinson

“To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has…

— 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

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

— Marilynne Robinson

“We live in a moment in which old conflicts, much altered during their subterraneous years, have boiled up again. The struggle to…

— Marilynne Robinson

Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally…

— Marilynne Robinson

“I really despise the pathos of being found asleep at odd times in odd places.”

— Marilynne Robinson

I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening…

— Marilynne Robinson

The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is…

— Marilynne Robinson

Many times when I stop working on a problem consciously, my mind continues to work on it below the surface. Often solutions…

— 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

“I could have married again while I was still young. A congregation likes to have a married minister, and I was introduced…

— Marilynne Robinson

I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to…

— Marilynne Robinson

“My point in mentioning this is only to say that people who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will…

— Marilynne Robinson

One of the things that is nice about these old pastors - they were young at the time - who went into…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Evening was her special time of day. She gave the world three syllables and indeed I think she liked it so well…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Anger and self-righteousness combined with cynicism about the world as he or she sees it are the marks of the ideologue. There…

— Marilynne Robinson