Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them, are more likely to be utterly lost not only to history but the family following them. Of course this is the fate of most souls, reducing entire lives, no matter how vivid and wonderful, to those sad black names on withering family trees, with half a date dangling after and a question mark.

Sebastian Barry's Popular Quotes

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

- Sebastian Barry

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 …

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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.

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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…

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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.

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

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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…

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

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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…

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