Quotes by Dylan Thomas

“Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

“Though lovers be lost love shall not.”

“Somebodys boring me. I think its me.”

“When one burns ones bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”

“An alcoholic is someone you dont like who drinks as much as you do.”

“I know were not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we dont know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we dont care that we dont.”

“I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.”

“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light”

“Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesnt do to upset ones own vanity.”

“A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs”

“Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness”

“When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.”

“Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness”

“The problem with some people is that when they arent drunk, theyre sober.”

“To begin at the beginning.”

“Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.”

“The function of posterity is to look after itself”

“These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and Id be a damn fool if they werent.”

“Ive just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think thats the record.”

“I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.”