Author details
All Annie Dillard Quotes
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
Annie Dillard
55% of people like this quote
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Annie Dillard
55% of people like this quote
I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
Annie Dillard
55% of people like this quote
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
Annie Dillard
53% of people like this quote
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
Annie Dillard
53% of people like this quote
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
Annie Dillard
51% of people like this quote
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
Annie Dillard
50% of people like this quote
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Annie Dillard in
Nature
49% of people like this quote
Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.
Annie Dillard
49% of people like this quote
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Annie Dillard
48% of people like this quote
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
Annie Dillard
47% of people like this quote
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard
47% of people like this quote
Related authors