Best Marilynne Robinson Sayings
- Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions… Acceptable
- It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company. Better
- A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. Father
- When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth. Ought
- It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time. Hours
- The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light...It seems… Beautiful
- There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse… All
- I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or… All
- Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. Absolute
- She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's destination was there… Aside
- Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it. Inspirational
- There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again,… Always Feel
- ...not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act. Act
- Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was. Been
- People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it,… Children
- People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do,… Anger
- It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for. All
- Grace has a grand laughter in it. Grace
- That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the… All
- I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think… All
- She closed one eye and looked at me and said, "I know there is a blessing in this somewhere." It is worth living long enough… Acquire
- I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel… Argument
- --"There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal. Breaking
- ...if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a… Been
- I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than… Anything Useful
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