Sebastian Barry Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Hero

• There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship.

  Sebastian Barry

  Topics in Friendship

• History needs to be mightily inventive about human life because bare life is an accusation against man’s dominion of the earth.

  Sebastian Barry

  Topics in History, Life

• Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character

• The trust of those in dark need is forgiving work.

  Sebastian Barry

  Topics in Trust

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Suffering

• 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

  Topics in Death, Life

• It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.

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  Topics in Death

• 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

  Topics in Memory

  Tags in Time

• Because faithfulness is not a human question, but a divine one.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faithfulness

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mercy

• It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.t

  Sebastian Barry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Happiness

• And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth.

  Sebastian Barry

  Topics in Life, Truth

Sebastian Barry (14)

Birth:	5th July, 1955
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Novelist, Playwright, Poet

About

Sebastian Barry is an Irish playwright, novelist and poet. He is noted for his dense literary writing style and is considered one of Ireland's finest writers. Barry's literary career began in poetry before he began writing plays and novels.

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