Djuna Barnes Quotes

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.

No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into.

Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?

There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

Only the impossible lasts forever.

To think is to be sick.

Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

Life, the permission to know death.

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.

He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into what we can love) would eventually be a part of himself

To think is to be sick...

I have been loved, " she said, "by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

the ballerina on perfected toeSpins to the axis of a fortitudeThat is the sum of all her yesterdays.

there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust