Author: Annie Dillard

Quotes

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

- Annie Dillard

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

- Annie Dillard

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

- Annie Dillard

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

- Annie Dillard

Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'

Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'

- Annie Dillard

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

- Annie Dillard

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

- Annie Dillard

You can't test courage cautiously.

You can't test courage cautiously.

- Annie Dillard

The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.

The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.

- Annie Dillard

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