Callous Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Surely there’s no need to abandon one’s reason simply because one is in Ireland.”

— J.G. Farrell

After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality.... The spirit of nationality in Ireland…

— George William Russell

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

— William Allingham

An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal…

— George Bernard Shaw

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air…

— George Bernard Shaw

The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against…

— Herbert Marcuse

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath…

— Tom Paulin

“There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.”

— Rhian J. Martin

“It is in these very items of knowledge which go beyond the world of senses, where experience can neither guide nor correct us, that…

— Immanuel Kant

When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that…

— James Joyce