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Annie Dillard Quotes about Life

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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Life, Wisdom, Travel

"The Writing Life". Tikkun magazine, Volume 3, Number 6, 1988.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.

Life, Rest In Peace, Mystery

Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.145, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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 priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?

Life, Religion, Atheism

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ch. 7 (1974)

The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.

Life, Way, Self Help

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Love, Life, Romantic

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

Life, Gestures, Stuff

Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.11, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

Inspirational, Life, Time

I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from airplanes the people are crying thank you, thank you, all down the air; and the cold carriages draw up for them on the rocks.

Life, Fall, Airplane

ANNIE DILLARD (1974). “PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK”

We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet

Life, Children, Culture

Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.17, Canongate Books

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

Life, Positive, Thinking

Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.53, Canongate Books

I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

Life, Fierce, Remember

Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.41, Canongate Books

One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.

Inspirational, Life, Book

Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.88, Canongate Books

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.

Inspirational, Life, Hours

Attributed to Annie Dillard in "The Writing Life", Book by Annie Dillard, 1989.

We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.

Life, Sleep, Water

Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.29, Canongate Books

Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.

Life, Ends, Wander

Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.110, Canongate Books

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