Create Yours

Top 100 John Banville Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 3 of 3

John Banville Quote: “How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.”

101. “How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.”

— John Banville

John Banville Quote: “I cut him off at once, with that particular form of corrosive savagery that grown sons reserve for their bumbling fathers.”

102. “I cut him off at once, with that particular form of corrosive savagery that grown sons reserve for their bumbling fathers.”

— John Banville

John Banville Quote: “This is the way it is with me, always looking in or looking out, a chilly pane of glass between me and a remote and longed-for world.”

103. “This is the way it is with me, always looking in or looking out, a chilly pane of glass between me and a remote and longed-for world.”

— John Banville

John Banville Quote: “Everything in the room seemed turned away from me in sullen resistance, averthing itself from my unwelcome return.”

104. “Everything in the room seemed turned away from me in sullen resistance, averthing itself from my unwelcome return.”

— John Banville

John Banville Quote: “What a little vessel of sadness we are, sailing in this muffled silence through the autumn dark.”

105. “What a little vessel of sadness we are, sailing in this muffled silence through the autumn dark.”

— John Banville

John Banville Quote: “Yes, tings endure while the living lapse.”

106. “Yes, tings endure while the living lapse.”

— John Banville

John Banville Quote: “The blunt, unceasing continuity of things baffled him, affronted him. It was a scandal, the entire indifferent business of being alive.”

107. “The blunt, unceasing continuity of things baffled him, affronted him. It was a scandal, the entire indifferent business of being alive.”

— John Banville

John Banville Quote: “He turned on her a look of desolation, baffled and defenseless. Quirke thought of Goya’s painting of the little dog in the corrida. He had seen it years before in the Prado and had never forgotten it.”

108. “He turned on her a look of desolation, baffled and defenseless. Quirke thought of Goya’s painting of the little dog in the corrida. He had seen it years before in the Prado and had never forgotten it.”

— John Banville

John Banville Quote: “The pleasures of acquisition are well known – says the thief, the former thief – but who ever mentions the quiet joy of letting things go?”

109. “The pleasures of acquisition are well known – says the thief, the former thief – but who ever mentions the quiet joy of letting things go?”

— John Banville

John Banville Quote: “There are moments when the past has a force so strong it seems one might be annihilated by it.”

110. “There are moments when the past has a force so strong it seems one might be annihilated by it.”

— John Banville

John Banville Quote: “Faded, yes. Reduced in substance. He seemed not entirely there, to others or to himself. He was preoccupied, absentminded, always distracted. His manner was that of a man constantly patting his pockets in search of something he had lost, or misplaced, or only imagined had been there in the first place.”

111. “Faded, yes. Reduced in substance. He seemed not entirely there, to others or to himself. He was preoccupied, absentminded, always distracted. His manner was that of a man constantly patting his pockets in search of something he had lost, or misplaced, or only imagined had been there in the first place.”

— John Banville

John Banville Quote: “Man is only lovable in the multitude, and at a good distance.”

112. “Man is only lovable in the multitude, and at a good distance.”

— John Banville

John Banville Quote: “As I have told you many times, there is no cure. No cure, that is, from what you call madness. There is only – what is the word? – amelioration. Surely you have read of the woman suffering from severe neurosis who went to Freud and asked him if he could cure her. Freud said no, he couldn’t do that, but he believed what he could do was restore her to a state of ordinary unhappiness.”

113. “As I have told you many times, there is no cure. No cure, that is, from what you call madness. There is only – what is the word? – amelioration. Surely you have read of the woman suffering from severe neurosis who went to Freud and asked him if he could cure her. Freud said no, he couldn’t do that, but he believed what he could do was restore her to a state of ordinary unhappiness.”

— John Banville

John Banville Quote: “For him, petulance was a pastime.”

114. “For him, petulance was a pastime.”

— John Banville

John Banville Quote: “The thing about grief was that you could press upon it at its sharpest points and blunt them, only for the bluntness to spread throughout the system and make it ache like one vast bruise.”

115. “The thing about grief was that you could press upon it at its sharpest points and blunt them, only for the bluntness to spread throughout the system and make it ache like one vast bruise.”

— John Banville

John Banville Quote: “To do the worst thing, the very worst thing, that’s the way to be free. I would never again need to pretend to myself to be what I was not.”

116. “To do the worst thing, the very worst thing, that’s the way to be free. I would never again need to pretend to myself to be what I was not.”

— John Banville

John Banville Quote: “He was pumped full of grief and a kind of pent-up, seething rage against the world in general and his immediate surroundings in particular. His presence in it made the room seem small, small and confined.”

117. “He was pumped full of grief and a kind of pent-up, seething rage against the world in general and his immediate surroundings in particular. His presence in it made the room seem small, small and confined.”

— John Banville

John Banville Quote: “The dead are my dark matter, filling up impalpably the empty spaces of the world.”

118. “The dead are my dark matter, filling up impalpably the empty spaces of the world.”

— John Banville

John Banville Quote: “I was estranged from myself and all that I had once supposed I was. My life up to now had only the weightless density of a dream. When I thought about my past it was like thinking of what someone else had been, someone I had never met but whose history I knew by heart. It all seemed no more than a vivid fiction.”

119. “I was estranged from myself and all that I had once supposed I was. My life up to now had only the weightless density of a dream. When I thought about my past it was like thinking of what someone else had been, someone I had never met but whose history I knew by heart. It all seemed no more than a vivid fiction.”

— John Banville

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

PREV 1 2 3 NEXT

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS APPLE

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

COURAGE MOTIVATIONAL STRENGTH

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 100 John Banville Quotes.

All the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters, and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.