Marilynne Robinson: Nothing

Marilynne Robinson is American novelist and essayist. Explore interesting quotes on nothing.
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“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 Gilead

Source: Gilead

Love , Loyalty

“I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all… except what you can't be rid of.”

Marilynne Robinson Home

Source: Home

World , Hope , Fools , Thinking

“There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

Beauty

“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 Gilead

Source: Gilead

Love , Death , Loyalty

“When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did nothing to mitigate.”

Marilynne Robinson book Housekeeping

Source: Housekeeping

Love

“He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

Tear