R.S. Thomas Quotes

The sudden urge to join the fray was intoxicating.Aaron Corbet

As Ossie Jones crept out of his body and into the mist, his heart murmured till it was silent.

Dying in vain isn't really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It's the living in vain you really have to watch out for.

It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats.

They shared an image of the American Christmas--riches, reconciliations, tears, snow, success, sentiment, furs and firs, the shop windows shining like Heaven and everything good for sale.

. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.

In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?

I thought I knew madness, but I didn’t know it before you.

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts.

The eyes were large and gray and in a certain light looked soft, gentle, and even innocent. Then the light would change, the innocence would vanish, and the eyes looked like year-old ice.

The eyes were larger and gray and in a certain light looked soft, gentle, and even innocent. Then the light would change, the innocence would vanish, and the eyes looked like year-old ice.

At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

When love comes first, actions will follow.

The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group -- even murderers.

It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, transform our lives, and give us necessary complexity and depth.

There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless ... beyond speech ... beyond concept.

It hurts so bad that I cannot save him, protect him, keep him out of harm's way, shield him from pain. What good are fathers if not for these things?

Come on up, boys-I'm dead.

He remembers what I forget and I remember what he forgets. It's too late for either of us to make another old friend.

Napping is divine, but I no longer have all the time in the world.

I was young once and slender and pretty and I made the most of it. It's somebody else's turn now.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

For the first time in years, I have vivid dreams, vivid enough to count the stars and the number of ripples in the sea.

How age enamels us, she would say. It builds up in layers and locks us inside our own skin, stopping us from breaking out, preventing the outside from burrowing in.

Learn tricks from others, Become a trickster

If you want to be saved look at the face of your Christ.

If you want to be saved look the face of your Christ.

Comedies are fit for common wits: But to present a kingly troop withal, Give me a stately-written tra

[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestow

Graft at your craft!

He said it with everything he did, every touch, every caress, every physical pleasure he bestowed upon me. Give it all to me. Give me your will.

A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.

The will is the keystone in the arch of human achievement. It is the culmination of our complex mental faculties. It is the power that rules minds, men and nations.

Nothing means anything but you still have to follow the rules.

She was a planet, way out in space, out of its orbit, and he was an unmanned spaceship, taking measurements of the atmosphere. She was not suitable for habitation.

Which is better: to dare to look directly into the blinding present, no matter how painful, or to await the detachment of hindsight -- which, being less painful, is more objective?

In this way, the Spartans erected a moral barrier between themselves and the helots to justify their harsh treatment of fellow Greeks. For all these reasons, the helots hated the Spartans bitterly.

Common sense will tell us, thatthe power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, themost improper to defend us.

He's the man we were in search of, that's true, and yet he's not the man we were in search of. For the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted.

Finally, I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am.

Of all the remedies it has pleased almighty God to give man to relieve his suffering, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

Please note, I am not suggesting that illicit drugs are required to break down social barriers.

The message was clear for baby boomers everywhere: Kurt Cobain was not merely some rock 'n' roll icon who couldn't handle drugs. In ways that were important to recognize, he was every parent's child.

What was a surprise was when the dog answered his que

I worked all day in back ofa hot van snipping off dog balls, I can cut one more pair. (Dark City Lights)

I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.

The realization that God could be female required the consideration that the Devil could be also.