Annie Dillard Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Writing, Hands

• Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

  Annie Dillard

  Writing, Dying, Patient

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.82, Canongate Books

• 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.

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Fall, Airplane

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

• Write as if you are dying.

  Annie Dillard

  Writing, Dying, Ifs

• I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.

  Annie Dillard

  Gratitude, Thinking, Doors

  1974 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.15.

• What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

  Annie Dillard

  Dying, Triviality, Persons

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.82, Canongate Books

• Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy, and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized.

  Annie Dillard

  Ideas, Joy, Secret

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.174, Canongate Books

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