Marilynne Robinson Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

• Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Song, Numbers, Sorrow

  "Housekeeping: A Novel". Book by Marilynne Robinson, www.abc.net.au. 1980.

• Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Song, Children, Fire

  "Housekeeping". Book by Marilynne Robinson, 1980.

• I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be a great part of the substance of human life.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Believe, Mean, Sorrow

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.104, Macmillan

• This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is ... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Loss, Light, Joy

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