Quotes by : Julian Barnes

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling after sex.

how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your....

It had been a slow and painful business, discovering that the theory of love did not match the reality....

In life, every ending is just the start of another story.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at,....

Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should....

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate:....

The past is a distant, receding coastline, and we are all in the same boat. Along the stern rail there....

You can't love someone without imaginative sympathy, without beginning to see the world from another....

I blushed. You haven't seen a bald man in his sixties blush? Oh, it happens, just as it does to a hairy,....