“Memory is identity. I have believed this since – oh, since I can remember. You are what you have done; what you… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“It had seemed to us philosophically self-evident that suicide was every free person's right: a logical act when faced with terminal illness… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death. ” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“It seemed to us philosophically self-evident that suicide was every free person's right: a logical act when faced with illness or senility;… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Part of love is preparing for death... Afterwards comes the madness. And then the loneliness... [People say] you'll come out of it...… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“For Montaigne, the death of youth, which so often takes place unnoticed is the harder death; what we habitually refer to as… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Memory is identity....You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“He died a modern death, in hospital,........after medical science had prolonged his life to a point where the terms on which it… — julian barnes Copy Share Image
“For me, death is the one appalling fact which defines life; unless you are constantly aware of it, you cannot begin to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“When she dies, you are not at first surprised. Part of love is preparing for death. You feel confirmed in your love… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“God damn it, he was thinking, this dying business is difficult. They just won’t let you get on with it, not on… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I settled into a contented routine of working, spending my free time with Veronica and, back in my student room, wanking explosively to fantasies… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“There is only good vodka and very good vodka—there is no such thing as bad vodka.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Also, when you are young, you think you can predict the likely pains and bleaknesses that age might bring. You imagine yourself being lonely,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods--the long-distance phone… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“My train was late, slowed by the usual Sunday engineering work. I got home in the early evening. I remember that I had a… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
