Djuna Barnes Quotes

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

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

To think is to be sick...

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

I might have known better, nothing is what everybody wants, the world runs on that law. Personally, ...

...he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called 'strange.'...

He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into ...

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

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

I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience g...

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

She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through...

She said to herself: 'Is not the gown the natural raiment of extremity? What nation, what religion, ...

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

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.