Top 350 Marilynne Robinson Quotes (2024 Update)
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Marilynne Robinson Quote: “You are not good for your own sake. That probably isn’t even possible. You are good as a courtesy to everyone around you. Keeping a promise or breaking it, telling the truth or lying, matters to those around you. So there is good you can do and always do again. You do not have to believe you are good in order to act well in any specific case. You never lose that option.”

351. “You are not good for your own sake. That probably isn’t even possible. You are good as a courtesy to everyone around you. Keeping a promise or breaking it, telling the truth or lying, matters to those around you. So there is good you can do and always do again. You do not have to believe you are good in order to act well in any specific case. You never lose that option.”

— Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson Quote: “Sometimes I feel like we’ve just been living on hints. Seeing the world through a keyhole. That’s how it would seem to us when we looked back.”

352. “Sometimes I feel like we’ve just been living on hints. Seeing the world through a keyhole. That’s how it would seem to us when we looked back.”

— Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson Quote: “I have been thinking lately how I have loved my physical life.”

353. “I have been thinking lately how I have loved my physical life.”

— Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson Quote: “That’s how the world is, touch anything, change everything. Caution is needed.”

354. “That’s how the world is, touch anything, change everything. Caution is needed.”

— Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson Quote: “In destitution, even of feeling or purpose, a human being is more hauntingly human and vulnerable to kindnesses because there is the sense that things should be otherwise, and then the thought of what is wanting and what alleviation would be, and how the soul could be put at ease, restored. At home. But the soul finds its own home if it ever has a home at all.”

355. “In destitution, even of feeling or purpose, a human being is more hauntingly human and vulnerable to kindnesses because there is the sense that things should be otherwise, and then the thought of what is wanting and what alleviation would be, and how the soul could be put at ease, restored. At home. But the soul finds its own home if it ever has a home at all.”

— Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson Quote: “Perhaps, pious as they were, these ladies did not wish to see me pass into that sad and outcast state of revelation where one begins to feel superior to one’s neighbors.”

356. “Perhaps, pious as they were, these ladies did not wish to see me pass into that sad and outcast state of revelation where one begins to feel superior to one’s neighbors.”

— Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson Quote: “The word “preacher” comes from an old French word, predicateur, which means prophet. And what is the purpose of a prophet except to find meaning in trouble?”

357. “The word “preacher” comes from an old French word, predicateur, which means prophet. And what is the purpose of a prophet except to find meaning in trouble?”

— Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson Quote: “She had repaid his kindness with kindness. As she would not have done if she had known who he was. What he was. When defects of character are your character, you become a what. He had noticed this. No one ever says, A liar is who you are, or Who you are is a thief. He was a what, absolutely.”

358. “She had repaid his kindness with kindness. As she would not have done if she had known who he was. What he was. When defects of character are your character, you become a what. He had noticed this. No one ever says, A liar is who you are, or Who you are is a thief. He was a what, absolutely.”

— Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson Quote: “Embarrassment, relentless, punitive scorn, can wear away at a soul until it recedes into wordless loneliness.”

359. “Embarrassment, relentless, punitive scorn, can wear away at a soul until it recedes into wordless loneliness.”

— Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson Quote: “An intensely lonely man for whom life had not gone well – I believe this was your language.”

360. “An intensely lonely man for whom life had not gone well – I believe this was your language.”

— Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson Quote: “He would pick up eggshells, a bird’s wing, a jawbone, the ashy fragment of a wasp’s nest. He would peer at each of them with the most absolute attention, and then put them in his pockets, where he kept his jackknife and his loose change. He would peer at them as if he could read them, and pocket them as if he could own them. This is death in my hand, this is ruin in my breast pocket, where I keep my reading glasses.”

361. “He would pick up eggshells, a bird’s wing, a jawbone, the ashy fragment of a wasp’s nest. He would peer at each of them with the most absolute attention, and then put them in his pockets, where he kept his jackknife and his loose change. He would peer at them as if he could read them, and pocket them as if he could own them. This is death in my hand, this is ruin in my breast pocket, where I keep my reading glasses.”

— Marilynne Robinson

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