Quotes by : 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....

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

Clinton and his cigar was so much greater a man than Bush and his rifle.

And be thinking, remembering. Trying to. All difficult dark stuff, stories stuffed away, like old socks....

It is not history. But I am beginning to wonder strongly what is the nature of history. Is it only memory....

I was well aware how famously or infamously secretive these old institutions can be, no more than ourselves,....

If it had been a great necessity, if it had been contingents of an army meeting to overwhelm the enemy....

It’s a dark thing when the world sets no value on you and your kin, and then Death comes stalking in,....

The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many....

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