Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. W
  4. Wendell Berry
  5. Giving Up

Wendell Berry Quotes about Giving Up

All Wendell Berry Quotes Abuse Affection Age Ambition Art Assumption Character Children Choices Christianity Commitment Community Country Culture Darkness Desire Doubt Drinking Eating Economy Energy Environment Expectations Failing Farming Feelings Food Freedom Generosity Genius Giving Giving Up quotes Grace Greed Grief Growth Hatred Healing Heart Heaven Home House Humility Hurt Ignorance Imagination Inspirational Inspiring Jesus Journey Joy Justice Language Life Loneliness Lying Memories Military Morning Mountain Nature Past Pleasure Poverty Prayer Quality Rain Reading Responsibility Running Sacrifice Silence Simplicity Sin Soul Suffering Survival Sustainability Taxes Technology Understanding Violence Vision Waiting War Water Weakness Work Writing
To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.

To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.

Wendell Berry
Life, Giving Up, Miracle
Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press

Willing to die you give up your will; keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.

Wendell Berry
Giving Up, Moving, Willing
Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.166, Counterpoint Press

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

Wendell Berry
Giving Up, Men, Doe
Wendell Berry (2009). “The Mad Farmer Poems”, p.6, Counterpoint Press

You May Also Like: