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Sebastian Barry is an Irish playwright known for his profound literary style and unique perspective on history. His works have won numerous literary awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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“My head is already stuffed with grief I suppose like a pomegranate with its red seeds. I can only bleed grief, having no room for more.”

Grief Simile Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture

Book:The Secret Scripture

Source: The Secret Scripture

“Do you know the grief of it? I hope not. The grief that does not age, that does not go away with time, like most griefs and human matters. That is the grief that is always there, swinging a little in a derelict house, my father, my father. I cry out for him.”

Grief Sad Tragic Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture

Book:The Secret Scripture

Source: The Secret Scripture

“And of course I started to cry. Not for myself strangely enough, though I am sure I could have, with capital and interest, but no, not for myself. For my mother? Who can really itemise the cause of our human tears?”

Grief Tears Sad Crying Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture

Book:The Secret Scripture

Source: The Secret Scripture

“I wonder if I were to have an X-ray at the little hospital, would the machine see my grief? Is it like rust, arheum about the heart?”

Grief

Book:On Canaan's Side

Source: On Canaan's Side

“Grief is about two years long, they say, it is a platitude out of manuals for grievers. But we are in mourning for our mothers before even we are born.”

Grief Mourning Mothers

Book:The Secret Scripture

Source: The Secret Scripture

“The real comfort is that the history of the world contains so much grief that my small grief are edged out, and are only cinders at the borders of the fire.”

Grief

Book:The Secret Scripture

Source: The Secret Scripture

“I rose and moved towards him. You would have done the same yourself. It is an ancient matter. Something propels you towards sudden grief, or perhaps also sometimes repels. You move away. I moved towards it, I couldn't help it.”

Sometimes Matter Done Helping Moving Grief Moved Rose Ancient

Book:The Secret Scripture

Source: The Secret Scripture

About the Author

Born: July 5, 1955
Known for: Playwright
Quotes: 79

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