Tim Winton quotes are thought-provoking, memorable and inspiring. From views on society and politics to thoughts on love and life, Tim Winton has a lot to say. In this list we present the 12 best Tim Winton quotes, in no particular order. Let yourself get inspired!
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Tim Winton quotes
It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.
— Tim Winton, Breath
And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still buzzing in the light.
— Tim Winton, The Riders
She was still glad she looked like Scully. He wasn’t pretty either, but pretty people weren’t the kind you need. Pretty people saw themselves in the mirror and were either too happy or too sad. People like Billie just shrugged and didn’t care. She didn’t want to turn into anyone pretty. Anyway, she had scars now, you only had to look.
— Tim Winton, The Riders
It’s the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, Compassion, Art, Love. All of them are pointless. But, they’re what keeps life from being meaningless.
— Tim Winton
Old Scully, who according to Jennifer, hadn’t the imagination to think the worst. Something she said once, as though neurosis was an artform.
— Tim Winton, The Riders
He was free and unencumbered. Which is to say alone and unemployed.
— Tim Winton, Eyrie
…the past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over.
— Tim Winton, The Turning
There’s things that have no finish, Scully, no ending to speak of. There’s no justice to it, but that’s the God’s truth. The only end some things have is the end you give em.
— Tim Winton, The Riders
So you’ve given away the old good and evil? asked Rose, amazed at all this rare talk from Quick.No. No. I’ll stay a cop. But it’s not us and them anymore. It’s us and us and us. It’s always us. That’s what they never tell you. Geez, Rose, I just want to do right. But there’s no monsters, only people like us. Funny, but it hurts.
— Tim Winton, Cloudstreet
The whole underneath of Paris was an ant nest, Metro tunnels, sewer shafts, catacombs, mines, cemeteries. She’d been down in the city of bones where skulls and femurs rose in yellowing walls. Right down there, win the square before them. through a dinky little entrance, were the Roman ruins like honeycomb. The trains went under the river. There were tunnels people had forgotten about. It was a wonder Paris stood up at all. The bit you saw was only half of it. Her skin burned, thinking of it. The Hunchback knew. Up here in the tower of Notre Dame he saw how it was. Now and then, with the bells rattling his bones, he saw it like God saw it — inside, outside, above and under — just for a moment. The rest of the time he went back to hurting and waiting like Scully out there crying in the wind.
— Tim Winton, The Riders
I have never been a violent man. Just a little creepy, it seems.
— Tim Winton, Breath
And though I’ve lived to be an old man with my very own share of happiness for all the mess I made, I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living.
— Tim Winton, Breath
There are no wastelands in our landscape quite like those we’ve created ourselves.
— Tim Winton
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