620 Quotes by Marilynne Robinson

I do hope to die with a quiet heart . I know that may not be realistic.

Another factor that seems to me to be equally important is the great myth and rationale of 'the modern,' that it places dynamite at the foot of old error and levels its shrines and monuments. Contempt for the past surely accounts for a consistent failure to consult it.

Che cosa ho da lasciarti se non le rovine di un antico coraggio, e la tradizione di antiche prodezze e speranze?Ebbene, come ho già detto, ormai è tutto quanto ridotto a un tizzone, e sicuramente un giorno il Signore vi aliterà sopra facendolo fiammeggiare di nuovo.

Tutta questa cittadina somiglia davvero alla speranza, quando ha cominciato a logorarsi un po’, e poi si logora un altro po’. Ma una speranza rinviata resta sempre una speranza.

Schon bald nach ihrer Heirat war sie zu dem Schluss gekommen, dass Liebe zur Hälfte aus einer Sehnsucht bestand, die durch Besitz nicht zu lindern war.

There is a tendency among some religious people even to invite ridicule and bring down on themselves and intellectual content which seems to me in some cases justified. Nevertheless, I would advise you against defensiveness on principle. It precludes the best eventualities along with the worst. At the most basic level, it expresses a lack of faith.

They left a trail of hopscotch behind them, Mellie always thinking of ways to make it harder. They'd be jumping along in the dust, barefoot, with licorice drops in their mouths, feeling as though they had run off with everything in that town that was worth having.

At the root of real honor is always the sense of the sacredness of the person who is its object.

She wept easily. This did not mean that she felt things more deeply than others did. It certainly did not mean that she was fragile or sentimental or ready to bring that sodden leverage to bear on the slights that came with being the baby of the family.