Djuna Barnes Life Quotations

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

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

Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.

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.

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