Annie Dillard Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Long, Age

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.107, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

• The surest sign of age is loneliness.

  Annie Dillard

  Time, Loneliness, Age

• Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous.

  Annie Dillard

  Beauty, Men, Race

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.9, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

• I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.

  Annie Dillard

  Age, Survivor, Fallen World

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.245, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

• It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

  Annie Dillard

  Silly, Writing, Long Ago

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