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Live Quotes by Annie Dillard
- The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
- I have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I live for it,…
- Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive…
- The way you live your days is the way you live your life.
- I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed…
- We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people,…
- Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
- We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.
- I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
- It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence.…
- No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are…
- The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or…
- We live in all we seek.
- She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
- These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
- Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is…
- The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it itself grinds to…
- Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.
- When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was…
More Live Quotes
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches. — Fred Armisen
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong