R S Thomas Quotes

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

Elsewhere are two letters that were never sent, because of pride, each a declaration of love that would’ve changed lives

I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.

You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always

Reason obeys itself

...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.

So, " said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universe——all its matter and forms of energy——arise out of thought.

More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy.

Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, wrote that nothing can be expressed about solitude "that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

Three more words. Be happy. Persevere.

I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.

He leaned toward me and delicately grazed my lips with his. The tease left me breathless, burning for more. “I keep having to remind myself that I can do that, ” he smirked.

Her exceptional beauty also helps her to keep her secrets. Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty

Her name is Emmilina. She is quite eccentric and was Thomas’s best friend.

I am amazed that there are still nights when I sleep well.

Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.

In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...

Democracy is eternal and human. It dignifies the human being

Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool

But stupid things have a gravity and a momentum of their own

Take the fact that you were created to love. Your heart can find real joy only through love - through loving and being loved.

All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient…

knowledge depends on the mode of the knower

He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world

To be in Christ -- that is redemption

I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved.

If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown.

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

It's funny, ma'am, how sometimes you're so sarcastic but it doesn't sting.""Because of my dimples. Dimples are a get-out-of-jail-free card

I have a black belt in sarcasm, and my wit is like lightning.

Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting

Ah, sir, that's just mean. She's not a Victoria's Secret model. but she's pretty in her way.

Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset

I'm crazy, boy. I'm a madman. I could eat both of you for dinner and love every bite.

...an age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not...

On a small table beside his chair were other haphazardly stacked volumes by such poets as Emerson, Whitman, and Wallace Stevens, a dangerous crew to let into your head.

Music, oh, how faint, how weak, Language fades before thy spell!Why should Feeling ever speak, When thou canst breathe her soul so well?

And just like a midsummer nights breeze, she ran away, into the moonlight, a fox, proud and strong. The lone wolf walked away, saddened she was gone.

Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.

Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing

...Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside...

Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.

I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced.

Alone, we're us: an innocent secret made of bad habits spread across his bed.

I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.