35 Quotes by Timothy Findley

They waited.The door did not open.The rain did not stop.The darkness made a tent and covered them completely.

I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they’ll remember we were human beings.

He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.

I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.

People can only be found in what they do.

Complaints about reality are immature.

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 lie in the sea before they’re born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean – walking on the land.

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 their response to that moment.

I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.