--- title: "12 Sometimes Quotes By Colum McCann" description: "12 Sometimes quotes by Colum McCann. Plus more from Colum McCann and more Sometimes sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/921/colum-mccann-902_function_words-are-good-for-saying-what-things-ar_148508.png" --- > [Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/words-are-good-for-saying-what-things-are-but-sometimes-they-don-t/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/921/colum-mccann-902_function_words-are-good-for-saying-what-things-ar_148508.png) > [Sometimes, in life, nothing happens. But, sometimes, nothing happens beautifully.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/sometimes-in-life-nothing-happens-but-sometimes-nothing-happens/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/613/colum-mccann-902_beautifully_sometimes-in-life-nothing-happens-but-so_1091380.png) > [The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/the-real-beauty-in-life-is-that-beauty-can-sometimes-occur/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47a/colum-mccann-902_ballet_the-real-beauty-in-life-is-that-beauty-c_3080135.png) > [Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/sometimes-thinking-back-on-things-is-a-mistake-arising-out-of-pride/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/627/colum-mccann-902_failure_sometimes-thinking-back-on-things-is-a-m_2022961.jpg) > [She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/she-was-tired-of-everyone-wanting-to-go-to-heaven-nobody-wanting-to/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c09/colum-mccann-902_bears_she-was-tired-of-everyone-wanting-to-go_2070394.jpg) > [He told me once that there was no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/he-told-me-once-that-there-was-no-better-faith-than-a-wounded-faith/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93f/colum-mccann-902_faith_he-told-me-once-that-there-was-no-better_1879196.png) > [If you sort of see yourself writing into a space that you don't always recognize, you sometimes learn things that you knew,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/if-you-sort-of-see-yourself-writing-into-a-space-that-you-don-t/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fb/colum-mccann-902_explorers_if-you-sort-of-see-yourself-writing-into_452086.png) > [That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/that-was-the-sort-of-everyday-love-i-had-to-learn-to-contend-with-if/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b37/colum-mccann-902_children_that-was-the-sort-of-everyday-love-i-had_1824524.png) > [Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/sometimes-we-just-walk-into-something-that-is-not-for-us-at-all-we/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/283/colum-mccann-902_argument_sometimes-we-just-walk-into-something-th_208197.png) > [He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/he-didn-t-like-it-all-that-much-when-he-first-came-all-the-rubbish/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dd/colum-mccann-902_cities_he-didn-t-like-it-all-that-much-when-he_1049452.png) > [I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/i-m-not-interested-in-blind-optimism-but-i-m-very-interested-in/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/529/colum-mccann-902_blind_i-m-not-interested-in-blind-optimism-but_739538.png) > [Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/some-people-think-love-is-the-end-of-the-road-and-if-you-re-lucky/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8f/colum-mccann-902_cliffs_some-people-think-love-is-the-end-of-the_1950979.png) ## Other authors on Sometimes ## More by Colum McCann > [Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/give-life-long-enough-and-it-will-solve-all-your-problems-including/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [“There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/there-is-something-that-happens-to-the-mind-in-moments-of-terror/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [“The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/the-short-sharp-shock-of-three-thousand-mother-two-hundred-mothers/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/i-m-not-so-sure-that-i-can-teach-people-how-to-you-know-write/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [“Once we had filled each other with desire, not remembrance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/once-we-had-filled-each-other-with-desire-not-remembrance/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [“How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/how-long-ago-it-was-and-how-strange-but-all-dead-friends-come-to-life/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [“She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/she-would-want-instead-to-recall-him-in-the-air-between-layers-of/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/novels-are-more-difficult-simply-because-they-are-longer-and-require/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/it-was-a-silence-that-heard-itself-awful-and-beautiful/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/i-think-one-of-the-biggest-political-failures-and-the-biggest-social/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [“Bits of it floating in the air, he said. "It's like dust. You walk about and don't see it, don't notice it, but it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/bits-of-it-floating-in-the-air-he-said-it-s-like-dust-you-walk-about/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [“He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The proper coexistence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/he-has-read-whole-volumes-on-the-philosophy-of-nonviolence-how-peace/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [“She’s always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/she-s-always-thought-that-one-of-the-beauties-of-new-york-is-that-you/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/i-m-of-the-opinion-that-the-real-is-imagined-and-the-imagined-is/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [“She had that emigrant’s sadness—she would never go back to her old country—it was gone in more senses than one—but she was forever gazing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/she-had-that-emigrant-s-sadness-she-would-never-go-back-to-her-old/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sometimes/colum-mccann/#itemlist", "name": "12 Sometimes Quotes By Colum McCann", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Colum McCann" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/words-are-good-for-saying-what-things-are-but-sometimes-they-don-t/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/921/colum-mccann-902_function_words-are-good-for-saying-what-things-ar_148508.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/921/colum-mccann-902_function_words-are-good-for-saying-what-things-ar_148508.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/921/colum-mccann-902_function_words-are-good-for-saying-what-things-ar_148508.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.” — Colum McCann", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Sometimes, in life, nothing happens. 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