Sebastian Barry

“The atomic bomb brings the men home from every quarter of the earth because the war is not so much over as…

— Sebastian Barry

“And all those boys of Europe born in those times, and thereabouts those times, Russian, French, Belgian, Serbian, Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh,…

— 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…

— Sebastian Barry

“Terrible, dreepy, dark February weather I remember, and the worst, most frightened days of my life.”

— Sebastian Barry

“But as I spoke to him, all I could feel was love. That was ridiculous. And I am deeply, deeply suspicious of…

— Sebastian Barry

“I am dwelling on things I love, even if a measure of tragedy is stitched into everything, if you follow the thread…

— Sebastian Barry

“Her greatest wish I should think was that I would remain exactly as I was, and how I regret that that was…

— Sebastian Barry

“Killing hurts the heart and soils the soul.”

— Sebastian Barry

“So then it got hotter. You can feel your back begin to cook. Pinch of salt and a few sprigs of rosemary…

— Sebastian Barry

What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking?

— Sebastian Barry

“...we are never old to ourselves. That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the…

— Sebastian Barry

I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still…

— Sebastian Barry

“I'll keep in touch, says Lige, ain't going to let you go. This makes John Coke very quiet. John is a tall…

— Sebastian Barry

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a…

— Sebastian Barry

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

— Sebastian Barry

It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them,…

— Sebastian Barry

“Thousands die everywhere always. The world don’t care much, it just don’t mind much. That’s what I notice about it. There is…

— Sebastian Barry

“The trust of those in dark need is forgiving work.”

— Sebastian Barry

“...a person I have come to accept in the way of things here, which, if they can't be changed, they must be…

— Sebastian Barry

“The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence.”

— Sebastian Barry

“The real comfort is that the history of the world contains so much grief that my small griefs are edged out, and…

— Sebastian Barry

It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down…

— Sebastian Barry

“For history as far as I can see is not the arrangement of what happens, in sequence and in truth, but a…

— Sebastian Barry

For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my…

— Sebastian Barry

That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.

— Sebastian Barry