237 Quotes by Dylan Thomas

Time kills me terribly. ‘Time shall not murder you,’ He said, ‘Nor the green nought be hurt; Who could hack out your unsucked heart, O green and unborn and undead?’ I saw time murder me.

Looking through my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-colored snow, I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them up the long, steadily falling night. I turned the gas down, I got into bed. I said some words to the close and holy darkness, and then I slept.

And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man’s tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain...

We can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.

This world is half the devil’s and my own, Daft with the drug that’s smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye.

An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.

Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels...

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

Oh, isn’t life a terrible thing, thank God?