Quote by

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
– Annie Dillard

Related Quotes:

  1. The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is. – Annie Dillard
  2. Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world. – Annie Dillard
  3. I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out. – Annie Dillard
  4. I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267). – Annie Dillard
  5. real silence is silence without words, silence that speaks words in silence and silence that talks better than words – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  6. real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks better than words – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  7. She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. – Annie Dillard
  8. She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die. – Annie Dillard
  9. Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them. – Annie Dillard
  10. I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs. – Annie Dillard
  11. Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there. – Annie Dillard
  12. The answer must be, I think, that the beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there. – Annie Dillard
  13. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing. – Annie Dillard
  14. I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. – Annie Dillard
  15. Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. – Annie Dillard
  16. You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades. – Annie Dillard
  17. On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away. – Annie Dillard
  18. The writing that so thrills and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing right next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else. – Annie Dillard
  19. Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper. – Annie Dillard
  20. I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. – Annie Dillard
  21. What I didn’t need was some hot-and-cold long-distance flake wasting my time. It hurt my feelings and made me feel like something was wrong with me. – Mindy Kaling
  22. A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much. – Haruki Murakami
  23. Silence is peace, silence is quiet, silence is calming, silence is what you can be. – Jessica Kissner
  24. [I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, -œAesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds, – Ross Wetzsteon
  25. Better to be safe than to be sorry’ is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives. – Idries Shah
  26. She snorted in amusement at my remark. -œWhen are the guards going to start to notice?- Keith peered into the distance. -œStarting now, – Erica Sehyun Song
  27. Jump high brother!! So high that if you fall, then people should remark on not how far you fell but how high you jumped – Anubhav Mishra
  28. …Peabody had better retire to her bed; she is clearly in need of recuperative sleep, she has not made a sarcastic remark for fully ten minutes. – Elizabeth Peters
  29. I don’t get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn’t know which one to start next, block. – Tyler Hojberg
  30. If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world? – Pat Murphy
  31. Homosexuality is immutable, irreversible and nonpathological. – Abhijit Naskar
  32. History was once rewritten by the victors. Now we write our own immutable histories with every email, text, and post. – Kent Alan Robinson
  33. It is only the sudden and unpredictable appearance of comets that spoils the immutable celestial sphere. – John Pipkin
  34. It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all. – Enza Vita
  35. You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things. – Augustine of Hippo
  36. The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable. – Patrick Henry
  37. One of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. – Anne Lamott
  38. I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
  39. Silence can answer the question words may fail to answer. If you want to know what silence can do, keep silence! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  40. The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence — silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones – Vinay Kumar

More Quotes

, , , , , , , , , , ,