A Quote by Annie Dillard

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
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Born: April 30, 1945

Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and holy, and fleet. There is nothing to be done about it, but ignore it, or see.

Annie Dillard

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Henry David Thoreau

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

Plautus

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

Joanna Russ

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

George Washington

Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.

William Watson

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

George Bernard Shaw

The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

Bion of Borysthenes

Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Charles Spurgeon

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

Sam Levenson

I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has not been carried away by this passion (sc. envy) in good earnest; yet I never met with any one who dared own he was guilty of it but in jest.

Bernard de Mandeville

It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past...

Douglas MacArthur

The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.

Katharine Tynan

Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And that is why good paintings are incomprehensible. Creating the incomprehensible has absolutely nothing to do with turning out any old bunkum, because bunkum is always comprehensible.

Gerhard Richter

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