Famous Marilynne Robinson Quotes

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

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

  • The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art. – Marilynne Robinson

    The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.– Marilynne Robinson

  • I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally. – Marilynne Robinson

    I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.– Marilynne Robinson

  • Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it. – Marilynne Robinson

    Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.– Marilynne Robinson

  • …morality is a check upon the strongest temptations. – Marilynne Robinson

    …morality is a check upon the strongest temptations.– Marilynne Robinson

  • You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time. – Marilynne Robinson

    You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.– Marilynne Robinson

  • The best things that happen I’d never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather. – Marilynne Robinson

    The best things that happen I’d never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather.– Marilynne Robinson

  • . . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father’s love and our deserving. – Marilynne Robinson

    . . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father’s love and our deserving.– Marilynne Robinson

  • Love is holy because it is like grace–the worthiness of its object is never really what matters. – Marilynne Robinson

    Love is holy because it is like grace–the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.– Marilynne Robinson

  • It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company. – Marilynne Robinson

    It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.– Marilynne Robinson