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Top 50 Kevin Barry Quotes (2024 Update)

Kevin Barry Quote: “It’s freedom, she says. It’s poverty, Charlie says. Poverty is always for free.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “It’s poverty, Charlie says. Poverty is always for free.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “It is nothing, to give one’s life for Ireland. I’m not the first and maybe I won’t be the last. What’s my life compared with the cause?”
Kevin Barry Quote: “Mouth of teeth on him like a vandalised graveyard but we all have our crosses.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “There is a stab of awareness at the beginning and at the end of love, and the feeling precisely replicates – it’s a twinge of cold certainty at either end of the affair, and it is twice terrifying.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “Watch for the glamorous sentence that appears from nowhere – it might have plans for you. Watch out for the clauses that are elegantly strung, for the string of words bejewelled. Watch out for the ripe language-it means your words may be about to go off?”
Kevin Barry Quote: “It was Dominick Gleeson, aka Big Dom, editor of the city’s only newspaper, the Bohane Vindicator. Of course, it was in no small part thanks to Logan Hartnett that the Vindicator remained the city’s only newspaper. Its masthead solgan: ‘Truth or Vengeance’, as inked above a motif of two quarrelling ravens.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “My husband is like one of those second-hand books you buy that’s got all the wrong bits underlined.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “Would you say there’s any end in sight, Charlie?”
Kevin Barry Quote: “It was peopled day and night by cirrhotic-looking old crooks and wastrel youths with insane mouths.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “We come into the world on the tip of a scream and the wave of our poor mothers’ roaring.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “He was a country boy with his wires twisted all wrong. He should have never been let near a city.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “And now from the vantage of his years a terrible swoon comes down on him; Cynthia, for a moment, descends all the way through him. This is not a rare occurrence. He will never lose the feeling of the love that they had together, or the nausea of its absence. Hate is not the answer to love; death is its answer.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “It was one of those summers you’re nostalgic for before it even passes.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “The motions of the alcohol are familiar: the easy warming, the calm sustain, and now the slow grading into remorse. A melancholy hour falleth. As afflicts a gentleman of colourful history. But, if he has nothing else to his name, he has his regrets, and these are not without value to the martyr’s self-portrait displayed in his mind’s eye. I am fifty-one years old, he thinks, and still at least halfways in love with meself. All told you’d have to call it a fucken achievement.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “Fathers throw the longer shadows. We get over the mothers, at last, but hardly ever the fathers, she said.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “He was more than possessed by his crimes and excesses – he was the gaunt accumulation of them.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “The years are rolling out like tide now. There is old weather on their faces, on the hard lines of their jaws, on their chaotic mouths.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “The Irishmen look out blithely at the faces that pass by in a blur of the seven distractions – love, grief, pain, sentimentality, avarice, lust, want-of-death.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “But now he came up to himself slowly again – it was like rising through heavy water – and he was warmed by one of the great consolations: nothing very terrible lasts for very long.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “It’s about what you’ve got to put yourself through to make anything worthwhile. It’s about going to the dark places and using what you find there.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “Cause of Death: the west of Ireland.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “The men are elegiacal, woeful, heavy in the bones.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “There was a papery film like mothskin stretched over his eyes. He slithered about making goldfish gasps as though traumatised by an otherworld invisible but to his eyes. He wore a corduroy suit in a marmalade shade. He was a cattish sort and slow-gesturing.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “Never name the moment for happiness or it will pass by.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “She sensed older presences as she walked. She knew by a cold stirring that here they had made their fires, and here their cattle had grazed, and here they ate periwinkles and oysters from the shell, and they had this burning salt on their lips, and felt this old rain, and made their cries of love and war, and roamed in hordes; their little kingdoms here were settled, and disassembled; by night, in our valley, the wolves had bayed.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “Bad luck, bad luck – the idea entertained itself, fattened, came to fruition. They took cocaine in breakneck quantities against the idea of the bad luck. They were hammering into the Powers, the John Jameson, it was breakfast from the bottle and elevenses off the mirror.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “In the native way he was tormented now by his own happiness.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “He sits in his tomb up top of the Newport hotel. It contains a crunchy armchair, a floppy bed, several arrogant spiders, a mattress with stains the shapes of planets and an existential crisis. But he wouldn’t want to sound too French about it.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “He stops up – he’s had a stunning thought. Is there such a thing, he wants to know, as a positive crack-up? Where the mind breaks down and re-forms again but only to show the world more clearly than before. A mind left calm as a settled pool.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “A troubled silence descends – the old times are shifting again; they are rearranging like fault lines. The past will not relent.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “The days were cold as evil but the evenings spread magic from the sea inwards and stretched out and tapped the place until it was open to our dreaming.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “There comes a time when you just have to live among your ghosts. You keep the conversation going. Elsewise the broad field of the future opens out as nothing but a vast emptiness.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “She gathered into a bundle of herself, drew up her legs – Dilly had a complicated arrangement with furniture always, and she took a while to settle. She wore her weather on the tip of her nose.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “The Past is uncertain, mobile. It shifts and rearranges back there yet.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “He knew more about the hills than he knew about himself, but lush, yes, as if it was May, a savage growth that made each small copse of trees livid with bunched ferocity.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “Charlie Redmond? This man here? The only man I ever.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “The port by night had a hot, diabolic quality. It rang of the past but was of the new century. On such a clear night you could see an hour south to the lamps of Tangier.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “The men sit restlessly on the bench. They are at a high vantage atop the stack of their years. They are old enough for the long view in either direction now.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “Charlie Redmond drank alone, but for his demons, at a crowded table at the back.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “He fled from it a few weeks after the century turned – Maurice Hearne was not Y2K compliant, was his serious opinion.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “Now breathe, and step out again, a step further from the past. Step into the streets as narrow as bones, the white streets of the labyrinth, and breathe deeply. Breathe, and step out once more.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “Para korku getirir.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “They settled into it together. They arranged the laptop on a chair between the two beds and she sat back on the edge of Maurice’s and they watched Rumble Fish again. In my humble and honest? Maurice said. We could be looking at Francis Ford Coppola’s finest hour.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “They are old enough for the long view in either direction now.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “The past shifted and rearranged itself. He could not step out from its reach. The past was fluid in the moment.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “Even as a kid, in the stroller, he was tuned to odd frequencies, it seemed.”
Kevin Barry Quote: “Out here, it was as if the world had backed off from them for a spell. They believed in fatedness and and meant-to-be’s. They believed in the dark star that was theirs to steer by.”
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