Quotes by : Sebastian Barry

Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.

And what else could we have come here for, except to sense these tiny victories? Not the big victories....

How is that for some people drinking is a short-term loan on the spirit, but for others a heavy mortgage....

The trust of those in dark need is forgiving work.

Men so sick they are dying of death.

I wanted to listen to him, but I did not want to answer now. That strange responsibility we feel towards....

In the darkness as we lie side by side John Cole's left hand snakes over under the sheets and takes a....

Roseanne, Roseanne, if I called to you now, my own self calling to my own self, would you hear me? And....

His people had hogs there till the bottom fell out of hogs. The bottom was always falling out of something....

The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising.....