Quote by Marilynne Robinson Download Open image ““the worst misfortune isn’t only misfortune”” — Marilynne Robinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune. — Bias of Priene Copy Share Image
“No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse.” — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself—but you just can’t help it.” — Joseph Frank Copy Share Image
“He who cannot stand misfortune does not deserve good fortune.” — Frederick the Great Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I think sometimes there might be an advantage in making people aware how worn and stale these old transgressions are. It might take some… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and father. And… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.’ There are pleasures to be found where you… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that they are… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
