R.S. Thomas Quotes

So, am I some sort of Savior? Not hardly. Save yourself the worry about needing to be saved from anything.

As it is, the vital question you should be asking is not what I am, but what you yourself are.

There is nothing like fear to complicate one's consciousness, inducing previously unknown levels of reflection

A horror writer is one who is not only willing to look into the darkest of shadows...but to reach into them too.

No more worlds like this / No more days like that

Life is a nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real.

Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night.

He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense.

Just as we will never grasp the full meaning of God, we will also never grasp the full meaning of love.

Souls, Ms. Ellis, are for people who blame devils for their illness and praise angels for the cure. I do neither.

The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action.

To change you must want to change, you must be responsible for the change, and then take action to make the change. It is your race to run so you need to choose your road wisely.

Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.

Experience is as to intensity and not as to duration.

He said that I have to remember that even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed

There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye.

I feel like crying. There's something so sad about broken concrete.

When you know yourself—your strengths, joys, limitations, and fears—you can live in truth and transparency in all areas of your life.

The destination isn't in finding yourself. The destination is in the search.

Culture primarily witnesses the absence of meaning, not it's presence.

No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.

How youMore people will learn about IBM from Wikipedia in the coming years than from IBM itself.

Facing and embracing grief allows us to experience the shock, anger, disappointment, and other feelings that need to be processed before we can move through this transition.

An average woman is in this superior to an average man—that she never instigates, only responds.

It may be said with truth that man is always susceptible ofimprovement

The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual improvement.

Author refers to, "short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.

I can’t hate you. We’re too connected. I can’t hate you without hating me.

It takes all of this technology to come up here and understand the simplicity of things. From here, it’s really difficult to understand borders, wars, and hate.

There are no saints either. We are immortal, but not so unlike the humans as you think. We have enemies, we have duties, we hate, we struggle, and we love.

She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct.

The foundation of morality to have done, once and for all, with lying.

Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.

I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.

Like I tell our kids, 'Your Mom isn't always right and I'm not always right. But together, WE'RE ALWAYS right!

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

In any case, muffins that are only imaginary aren't liable to get stuck.

When we eat together, when we set out to do so deliberately, life is better, no matter what your circumstances.

He got a tan over break. I used to tell him he was so pale he looked like a marshmallow. He hated that I compared him to food. I told him that's what he got for calling me caramel. It shut him up.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent

... the silenceHolds with its gloved handThe wild hawk of the mind.

The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.

Now I am a vagabond of the universe, a drifter among spaces where the madness of things has no limits.

A random act of violence, " his mother called it. "A totally senseless thing." Unnecessary qualifiers, he sometimes wants to tell her, as the universe is random and senseless place.

But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.

The whole universe is but a huge Symbol of god".