Marilynne Robinson

Truth Quotes

I felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone. -
Marilynne Robinson
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Life Quotes

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was. -
Marilynne Robinson

Death Quotes

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it. -
Marilynne Robinson
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God Quotes

Weary or bitter or bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wonder so we will know what it means to come home. -
Marilynne Robinson

Truth Quotes

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth. -
Marilynne Robinson
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Relationships Quotes

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. -
Marilynne Robinson