Quotes by : Djuna Barnes

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

To think is to be sick...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.