Best Quotes by Marilynne Robinson (Top 10)

  1. This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.
  2. Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.
  3. Love is holy because it is like grace—the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.
  4. Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
  5. There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that the wanderers will find a way home, and the perished, whose lack we always feel, will step through the door finally and stroke our hair with dreaming habitual fondness not having meant to keep us waiting long.
  6. It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.
  7. There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal. So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence?
  8. I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.
  9. There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient
  10. It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible "” incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.

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