Djuna Barnes Is Quotations

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

Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

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

For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.

Love becomes the deposit of the heart, analogous in all degrees to the 'findings' in a tomb. As in one will be charted the taken place of the body, the raiment, the utensils necessary to its other life, so in the heart of the lover will be traced, as an indelible shadow, that which he loves.