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Top 20 Timothy Findley Quotes (2025 Update)

Timothy Findley Quote: “I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they’ll remember we were human beings.”

1. “I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they’ll remember we were human beings.”

— Timothy Findley

Timothy Findley Quote: “All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance.”

2. “All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance.”

— Timothy Findley

Timothy Findley Quote: “Everyone who’s born has come from the sea. Your mother’s womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses lie in the sea before they’re born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean – walking on the land.”

3. “Everyone who’s born has come from the sea. Your mother’s womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses lie in the sea before they’re born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean – walking on the land.”

— Timothy Findley

Timothy Findley Quote: “He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.”

4. “He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.”

— Timothy Findley

Timothy Findley Quote: “Complaints about reality are immature.”

5. “Complaints about reality are immature.”

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Timothy Findley Quote: “People can only be found in what they do.”

6. “People can only be found in what they do.”

— Timothy Findley

Timothy Findley Quote: “I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.”

7. “I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.”

— Timothy Findley

Timothy Findley Quote: “Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean – walking on the land.”

8. “Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean – walking on the land.”

— Timothy Findley

Timothy Findley Quote: “Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can’t. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.”

9. “Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can’t. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.”

— Timothy Findley

Timothy Findley Quote: “Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.”

10. “Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.”

— Timothy Findley

Timothy Findley Quote: “Time is light, time is dark. You either dance, or you fall.”

11. “Time is light, time is dark. You either dance, or you fall.”

— Timothy Findley

Timothy Findley Quote: “The occupants of memory have to be protected from strangers.”

12. “The occupants of memory have to be protected from strangers.”

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Timothy Findley Quote: “What you people who weren’t yet born can never know is what it meant to sleep in cities under silent falls of snow when all night long the only sounds you heard were dogs that parked at trains that passed so far away they took a short cut through your dreams and no one even woke. It was the war that changed that. It was. After the Great War for Civilization – sleep was different everywhere...”

13. “What you people who weren’t yet born can never know is what it meant to sleep in cities under silent falls of snow when all night long the only sounds you heard were dogs that parked at trains that passed so far away they took a short cut through your dreams and no one even woke. It was the war that changed that. It was. After the Great War for Civilization – sleep was different everywhere...”

— Timothy Findley

Timothy Findley Quote: “I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.”

14. “I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.”

— Timothy Findley

Timothy Findley Quote: “Happiness is not our goal. The achievement of happiness deflects us from our true destiny which is the utter realization of self.”

15. “Happiness is not our goal. The achievement of happiness deflects us from our true destiny which is the utter realization of self.”

— Timothy Findley

Timothy Findley Quote: “They waited. The door did not open. The rain did not stop. The darkness made a tent and covered them completely.”

16. “They waited. The door did not open. The rain did not stop. The darkness made a tent and covered them completely.”

— Timothy Findley

Timothy Findley Quote: “Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.”

17. “Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.”

— Timothy Findley

Timothy Findley Quote: “There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else’s life and either stay or turn and go away.”

18. “There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else’s life and either stay or turn and go away.”

— Timothy Findley

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Timothy Findley Quote: “So far, you have read of the deaths of 557,017 people – one of whom was killed by a streetcar, one of whom died of bronchitis and one of whom died in a barn with her rabbits.”

19. “So far, you have read of the deaths of 557,017 people – one of whom was killed by a streetcar, one of whom died of bronchitis and one of whom died in a barn with her rabbits.”

— Timothy Findley

Timothy Findley Quote: “I knew that most of what is frightening and much of what is evil happens by the light of day. No need for darkness. Caesar, after all, had been murdered in the presence of a hundred people and more – some time between high noon and five o’clock. Right in these waters off the coast of Maine the most terrifying sharks are the ones we see in the radiance of fear. The real ones – darkened below us – do no harm until they rise towards the light. If only, I began to wish, it would get dark.”

20. “I knew that most of what is frightening and much of what is evil happens by the light of day. No need for darkness. Caesar, after all, had been murdered in the presence of a hundred people and more – some time between high noon and five o’clock. Right in these waters off the coast of Maine the most terrifying sharks are the ones we see in the radiance of fear. The real ones – darkened below us – do no harm until they rise towards the light. If only, I began to wish, it would get dark.”

— Timothy Findley

Timothy Findley Quote: “It was not the thought of seeing God that upset her. It was the thought of being seen.”

21. “It was not the thought of seeing God that upset her. It was the thought of being seen.”

— Timothy Findley

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