Annie Dillard Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

  Annie Dillard

  Prayer, Light, Joy

• 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

• Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.

  Annie Dillard

  Pain, Games, Skulls

• Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough, my strong unexpressed joy would dwindle and dissipate inside me, like a fire subsiding . . . . Just this once I wanted to let it rip.

  Annie Dillard

  Strong, Rip, Fire

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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