Author: Djuna Barnes

Quotes

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

- Djuna Barnes

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

- Djuna Barnes

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

- Djuna Barnes

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

- Djuna Barnes

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

- Djuna Barnes

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

- Djuna Barnes

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

- Djuna Barnes

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.

- Djuna Barnes

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