Quote

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.

Djuna Barnes

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
Moment
Hazard
Woman
Hazards
Next
Complexes
Moments
Complex
Place
Condition
Subject
Subjects
Displace
Conditions
Grievous

More quotes by Djuna Barnes

Image
And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
Djuna Barnes
Image
Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.
Djuna Barnes
Image
To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
Djuna Barnes
Image
An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
Djuna Barnes
Image
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?
Djuna Barnes
Image
Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
Djuna Barnes
Image
We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
Djuna Barnes
Image
The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
Djuna Barnes
Image
A man's sorrow runs uphill true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
Djuna Barnes
Image
Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy
Djuna Barnes
Image
One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.
Djuna Barnes
Image
Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
Djuna Barnes
Image
My war brought me many things let yours bring you as much. 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, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.
Djuna Barnes
Image
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.
Djuna Barnes
Image
Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
Djuna Barnes
Image
I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
Djuna Barnes
Image
When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston one goes to the Bowery.
Djuna Barnes
Image
I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through.
Djuna Barnes
Image
I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
Djuna Barnes
Image
No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into.
Djuna Barnes