I thought if I was going to live a life in this land I was accidentally born on, I must people it; I must have a history. . .. I'm looking for these …

- Sebastian Barry

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

- Sebastian Barry

Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.

- Sebastian Barry

I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.

- Sebastian Barry

After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.

- Sebastian Barry

I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the…

- Sebastian Barry

It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you ca…

- Sebastian Barry

That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.

- Sebastian Barry

I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in your head, at the front of your head. It dances a…

- Sebastian Barry