R S Thomas Quotes

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.

Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

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.

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."I said, "She never has.

If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.

Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

No government ought to be without censors

Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.

If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.

There will be something very wrong with any place we go.

With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.

I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.

There are injuries which nature cannot forgive

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

We forget that we are more than human beings on a spiritual journey

All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.

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