Sebastian Barry Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

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

2. And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth. The Secret Scripture

3. 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 can. The Secret Scripture

4. It is not history. But I am beginning to wonder strongly what is the nature of history. Is it only memory in decent sentences, and if so, how reliable is it? I would suggest, not very. And that therefore most truth and fact offered by these syntactical means is treacherous and unreliable. And yet I recognise that we live our lives, and even keep our sanity, by the lights of this treachery and this unreliability, just as we build our love of country on these paper worlds of misapprehension and untruth. Perhaps this is our nature, and perhaps unaccountably it is part of our glory as a creature, that we can build our best and most permanent buildings on foundations of utter dust. The Secret Scripture

5. 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 present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag. The Secret Scripture

6. It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers of happiness while you can. The Secret Scripture