It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, read more

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, far, better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Death is near and our mutual company is short.

Death is near and our mutual company is short.

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. read more

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs read more

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.

To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or read more

To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.

Lord, now lettest now thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word.
(2:29).

Lord, now lettest now thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word.
(2:29).

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.