Quote by Annie Dillard Download Open image ““To dust is only to forestall burial ”” — Annie Dillard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Do not be dust in the wind, but the wind that creates the dust storm.” — E.W. Greenlee Copy Share Image
“Dust dances in the light like tiny ghosts of stories. I open a yellowed page— your handwriting from another lifetime. The shopkeeper pretends not… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“A person should be buried only half a meter, or two feet, below the surface. Then a tree should be planted there. He should… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image
“But as it is to the dust that we go down at death, so it is from the dust that we arise at the… — G.H. Pember Copy Share Image
“What grain of dust can be easier carried by your life’s emptiness wind than the knowledge?” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“Maybe we're all the living dead, reconstituted from the dust of the dead.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Tomb dust in my tears and skin The living avoid me, the dead Deny me. -Lies of the Living” — Vanessa Wolf Copy Share Image
“This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent.” — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“...The mockingbird took a single step into the air and dropped. His wings were still folded against his sides as though he were singing… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees crossed, in blue slacks, smoking… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
