"Our life is a faint tracing on the…" — Annie Dillard
"Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery."
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260 Quotes by Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard has 260 quotes on this site.
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If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a…
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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each…
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You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word…
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at…
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I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host…
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Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where…
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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
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The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you…
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When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood…
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More Faint Quotes
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
— William Blake
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I…
— Erma Bombeck
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Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.
— George Clooney
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It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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To God your every Want In instant Prayer display, Pray always; Pray, and never faint; Pray, without ceasing, Pray.
— Charles Wesley
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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint."…
— G. Campbell Morgan
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When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food.
— Sun Tzu
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Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And…
— Adelaide Crapsey
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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