Liam O'Flaherty Quotes

“The wind came steadily, like the rushing of a great cataract heard at a great distance, but the noises of the sea were continually changing, rising and falling, with the stupendous modulations of an orchestra played by giants.”

Liam O'Flaherty

"The Landing", from Spring Sowing (1924; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926) p. 70

“Ours is the wild tumult of the unchained storm, the tumult of the army on the march, clashing its cymbals, rioting with excess of energy. Need we be ashamed of it?”

Liam O'Flaherty

Letter to the Irish Statesman, October 18, 1924

“I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.”

Liam O'Flaherty

Joseph Conrad: An Appreciation (1930; New York: Haskell House, 1973) p. 11

“He was a poor weak human being like themselves, a human soul, weak and helpless in suffering, shivering in the toils of the eternal struggle of the human soul with pain.”

Liam O'Flaherty book The Informer

The Informer (1925; London: New English Library, 1971) p. 139