I think the dying pray at the last not please but thank you as a guest thanks his host at the door

Quote by Annie Dillard

Topics: Funny Quotes, Humor Quotes, Religion Quotes

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not...

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not...

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to...

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to...

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from...

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from...

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first...

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first...

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the...

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the...

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not...

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not...

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination...

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination...

You can't test courage cautiously.

You can't test courage cautiously.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Cruelty is a mystery and a waste of pain

Cruelty is a mystery and a waste of pain

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it...

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it...

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing....

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing....

An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God...

An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God...

Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?...

Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved...

Art has no enemy except ignorance.

Art has no enemy except ignorance.

You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your...

You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your...

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within...

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within...

If wise men were hairs the world would need a wig

If wise men were hairs the world would need a wig