« All Why Quotes · Annie Dillard's Page
Why Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
- Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it…
- Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage,…
- The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?
- 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…
- why did I have to keep learning this same thing over and over?
- Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?
- An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the…
- Then why did you tell me?
- Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? Priest: No, not if you did not know. Eskimo: Then…
More Why Quotes
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. — Frank Abagnale
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very… — Bashar al-Assad