Timothy Findley Quotes

I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.

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.

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

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

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

People can only be found in what they do.

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

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

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

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.

I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they'll remember we were human beings

Complaints about reality are immature.

Elizabeth Hay has intelligence coming out of her fingertips - integrity, insight, and wonder in every paragraph of her writing.She connects. She stirs and provokes.

... too much brooding, not enough doing.

The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition.

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.