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A child is never the author of his own history.
— Sebastian Barry
It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers of happiness while you can.
— Sebastian Barry
I wonder if I were to have an X-ray at the little hospital, would the machine see my grief? Is it like rust, arheum about the heart?
— Sebastian Barry
I am as late as the rabbit in Lewis Carroll.
— Sebastian Barry
The trust of those in dark need is forgiving work.
— Sebastian Barry
three living men had seen horrors, and those who see horrors may do horrors just as bad, that is the law of life and war. Soon
— Sebastian Barry
We have neglected the tiny sentences of life and now the big ones are beyond our reach.
— Sebastian Barry
Our smiles mostly for each other, and every stranger a possible demon or bear, till they proved otherwise
— Sebastian Barry
I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.
— Sebastian Barry
I miss her face, its beauty, and its beauty lost.
— Sebastian Barry
There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the poor soul
— Sebastian Barry
That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.
— Sebastian Barry
Things that give you heart are rare enough, better note them in your head when you find them and not forget.
— Sebastian Barry
There's no soldier don't have a queer little spot in his wretched heart for his enemy, that's just a fact.
— Sebastian Barry
Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog.
— Sebastian Barry
Order returns to his addled head, and God no longer breaks eggs there in the morning" from "The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
— Sebastian Barry
Book I still possess in all the flotsam and ruckus of my life,
— Sebastian Barry
It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.
— Sebastian Barry
Those that we love, those essential beings, are removed from us at the will of the Almighty, or the devils that usurp them.
— Sebastian Barry
There are moments when I am pierced through by an inexplicable joy, as if, in having nothing, I have the world.
— Sebastian Barry
SPRING COMES INTO Massachusetts with her famous flame. God's breath warming the winter out of things
— Sebastian Barry
my mother's wits were now in an attic of her head which had neither door nor stair, or at least none that I could find.
— Sebastian Barry
For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.
— Sebastian Barry
Trench dirt didn't always wash out, I am sure.
— Sebastian Barry
Roseanne, Roseanne, if I called to you now, my own self calling to my own self, would you hear me? And if you could hear me, would you heed me?
— Sebastian Barry
We may be black-hearted men when our turn comes but there is a seam in men called justice that nothing burns off complete. Caught-His-Horse-First
— Sebastian Barry
And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth.
— Sebastian Barry
The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence.
— Sebastian Barry
But as I spoke to him, all I could feel was love. That was ridiculous. And I am deeply, deeply suspicious of it.
— Sebastian Barry
We were two wood-shavings of humanity in a rough world.
— Sebastian Barry
How is that for some people drinking is a short-term loan on the spirit, but for others a heavy mortgage on the soul?
— Sebastian Barry
I guess love laughs at history a little.
— Sebastian Barry
Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.
— Sebastian Barry
Four men killed that day. The phrase sat up in Willie's head like a rat and made a nest for itself there
— Sebastian Barry
What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking?
— Sebastian Barry
I suppose therefore God is the connoisseur of filthied hearts and souls, and can see the old, the first pattern in them, and cherish them for that.
— Sebastian Barry
To be alone, but to be pierced through with a kingly joy, now and then, as I believe I am, is a great possession indeed.
— Sebastian Barry
I am dwelling on things I love, even if a measure of tragedy is stitched into everything, if you follow the thread long enough
— Sebastian Barry
Because faithfulness is not a human question, but a divine one.
— Sebastian Barry
We may be immune to typhoid, tetanus, chicken-pox, diphtheria, but never memory. There is no inoculation against that.
— Sebastian Barry
The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising.
— Sebastian Barry
After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.
— Sebastian Barry
It is worthless talking about what we have been spared by death. Death grins at that I am sure. Death of all creation knows the value of life.
— Sebastian Barry
History needs to be mightily inventive about human life because bare life is an accusation against man's dominion of the earth.
— Sebastian Barry
who might have been a preacher had she not been cloven
— Sebastian Barry
He carried a highly ecclesiastical umbrella, like something real and austere, that said its prayers at night in the hatstand. I
— Sebastian Barry
There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship.
— Sebastian Barry
I am cold, even though the heat of early summer is adequate. I am cold because I cannot find my heart.
— Sebastian Barry
There are some sufferings that we seem as a creature to forget, or we would never survive as a creature among all the other creatures.
— Sebastian Barry
Clinton and his cigar was so much greater a man than Bush and his rifle.
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