Annie Dillard Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

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

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Wisdom, Travel

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

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

  Annie Dillard

  Love, Life, Romantic

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

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Way, Self Help

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

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Rest In Peace, Mystery

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

• 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.

  Annie Dillard

  Inspirational, Life, Book

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

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Positive, Thinking

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

• 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?

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Religion, Atheism

  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ch. 7 (1974)

• 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.

  Annie Dillard

  Inspirational, Life, Hours

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

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

  Annie Dillard

  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.

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Fall, Airplane

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

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

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Fierce, Remember

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

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

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Ends, Wander

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

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

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Sleep, Water

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

• 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

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Children, Culture

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

• The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Gestures, Stuff

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

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