179 Quotes by Djuna Barnes

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

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

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.

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.

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.