Tom Barry > Tom's Quotes

“Better to lose your husband than waste your life”
― Tom Barry

“Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room.

The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“A hard man is nice to find”
― Tom Barry, When the Siren Calls

“When you write, you believe in something no one else can see. You spend lots of time committed to a project for which there are no assurances, no guarantees. Being a writer subjects you to the same doubts, the same unpopularity, the same nagging questions that believers struggle with. Writing is communing with the unseen…”
― Heather Sellers, Chapter After Chapter: Discover the Dedication and Focus You Need to Write the Book of Your Dreams

“War has been glorified by men who have never been shot at.”
― Bobbye L. Hudspeth, Behind The Grey

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Time is the only critic without ambition - John Steinbeck”
― Moll Molone

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The first breathe of adultery is the freest.”
― John Updike