159 Quotes by Sebastian Barry

Men so sick they are dying of death.

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

Some friendships though, even strong and interesting ones, seem to have quite a short term, and cannot be prolonged.

I did not intend to cry out, but as you will see these small actions, associated in most people's minds with the ease and happiness of life, are to me still like knives in my heart to think of.

Because faithfulness is not a human question, but a divine one.

Little sins of omission that loom large now. You could go mad.

who might have been a preacher had she not been cloven

There’s no soldier don’t have a queer little spot in his wretched heart for his enemy, that’s just a fact.

It’s a dark thing when the world sets no value on you and your kin, and then Death comes stalking in, in his bloody boots”.