Previous Quote

Marilynne Robinson Quotes

Next Quote
Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave I've often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come. - Quote by Marilynne Robinson

I’ve often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come.

Marilynne Robinson
Copy LinkCopy Link
Copy QuoteCopy Quote
Copy ImageCopy Image
Download Image of QuoteDownload Image

About The Quote

Related Authors

Related Topics

More Quotes From Marilynne Robinson

She knew there were words so terrible you heard them with your whole body. Guilty. And there were voices to say them. She knew there were people you might almost trust who would hear them, too, and be amazed, and still not really hear them because they know they were not the ones the words were spoken to.
Marilynne Robinson
Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them send their children wandering drown them in floods and fires and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit in the porches and sing them on mild evenings.
Marilynne Robinson
In that eternity of his, where everybody will be happy, how could he feel the lack of her, the loss of her?
Marilynne Robinson
If you thought dead was just dead, then you wouldn't have to worry about any of this.
Marilynne Robinson
At the very best there are two major problems with ideology. The first is that it does not represent or conform to or even address reality. It is a straight-edge ruler in a fractal universe. And the second is that it inspires in its believers the notion that the fault here lies with miscreant fact, which should therefore be conformed to the requirements of theory by all means necessary.
Marilynne Robinson
Even as children they had been good in fact, but also in order to be seen as good. There was something disturbingly like hypocrisy about it all...
Marilynne Robinson
So much had never been explained to her. They were that kind of family. Things necessary to know were passed along brother to brother, sister to sister, and this sufficient for most purposes, despite inevitable error and sensational.
Marilynne Robinson
Glory had rehearsed angry outbursts in anticipation of his arrival. She began to hope he would come so she could tell him exactly what she thought.
Marilynne Robinson
Report Quote Report Quote Report Quote Submit Quote Submit Quote Submit Quote