Timothy Findley Quotes
- Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.
- What you people who weren't yet born can never know is what it meant to sleep in cities under silent falls of snow when all…
- Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in…
- The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition.
- All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can…
- I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.
- Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.
- And what you do is you go into where your anger is, if you're writing anger, you go into where your hatred is, if you're…
- They waited. The door did not open. The rain did not stop. The darkness made a tent and covered them completely.
- Complaints about reality are immature.
- People can only be found in what they do.
- I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they'll remember we were human beings
- ... too much brooding, not enough doing.
- I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.
- He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.
- In the dark that followed - Lucy said; "where I was born, the trees were always in the sun. And I left that place because…
- Everyone who’s born has come from the sea. Your mother’s womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses…
- Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful.