"The surest sign of age is loneliness." — Annie Dillard

"The surest sign of age is loneliness."

— Annie Dillard

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260 Quotes by Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard has 260 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a…
We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each…
You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word…
The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at…
I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host…
Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where…
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you…
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 Age Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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