--- title: "14 May Quotes By Julian Barnes" description: "14 May quotes by Julian Barnes. Plus more from Julian Barnes and more May sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f9/julian-barnes-522_baby_may-you-be-ordinary-as-the-poet-once-wis_1455977.png" --- > [May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/may-you-be-ordinary-as-the-poet-once-wished-the-new-born-baby/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f9/julian-barnes-522_baby_may-you-be-ordinary-as-the-poet-once-wis_1455977.png) > [Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/irony-may-be-defined-as-what-people-miss/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4b/julian-barnes-522_defined_irony-may-be-defined-as-what-people-miss_2438897.png) > [What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/what-is-taken-away-is-greater-than-the-sum-of-what-was-there-this-may/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa5/julian-barnes-522_greater_what-is-taken-away-is-greater-than-the-s_2417037.png) > [The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/the-better-you-know-someone-the-less-well-you-often-see-them-and-the/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa8/julian-barnes-522_blur_the-better-you-know-someone-the-less-wel_1609848.png) > [It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/it-strikes-me-that-this-may-be-one-of-the-differences-between-youth/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d8/julian-barnes-522_age_it-strikes-me-that-this-may-be-one-of-th_480390.jpg) > [How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/how-rarely-do-our-emotions-meet-the-object-they-seem-to-deserve-how/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d15/julian-barnes-522_bigs_how-rarely-do-our-emotions-meet-the-obje_24166.jpg) > [This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/this-is-what-those-who-haven-t-crossed-the-tropic-of-grief-often-fail/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fcb/julian-barnes-522_alive_this-is-what-those-who-haven-t-crossed-t_487931.png) > [When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/when-we-fall-in-love-we-hope-both-egotistically-and-altruistically/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6a/julian-barnes-522_approval_when-we-fall-in-love-we-hope-both-egotis_228420.png) > [Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/love-may-not-lead-where-we-think-or-hope-but-regardless-of-outcome-it/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cc/julian-barnes-522_form_love-may-not-lead-where-we-think-or-hope_229401.png) > [When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/when-you-read-a-great-book-you-don-t-escape-from-life-you-plunge/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/775/julian-barnes-522_book_when-you-read-a-great-book-you-don-t-esc_1116519.jpg) > [Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/not-merely-hope-but-any-burdensome-yearning-ambition-hatred-love/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa1/julian-barnes-522_ambition_not-merely-hope-but-any-burdensome-yearn_1043909.jpg) > [You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/you-put-together-two-people-who-have-not-been-put-together-before-and/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/909/julian-barnes-522_changed_you-put-together-two-people-who-have-not_159335.png) > [We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/we-live-on-the-flat-on-the-level-and-yet-and-so-we-aspire-groundlings/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e1/julian-barnes-522_art_we-live-on-the-flat-on-the-level-and-yet_1695688.png) > [You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/you-put-together-two-people-who-have-not-been-put-together-before/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/471/julian-barnes-522_balloons_you-put-together-two-people-who-have-not_29885.jpg) ## Other authors on May ## More by Julian Barnes > [“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/you-put-together-two-things-that-have-not-been-put-together-before/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) > [“I settled into a contented routine of working, spending my free time with Veronica and, back in my student room, wanking explosively to fantasies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/i-settled-into-a-contented-routine-of-working-spending-my-free-time/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) > [The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/the-greatest-patriotism-is-to-tell-your-country-when-it-is-behaving/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) > [“There is only good vodka and very good vodka—there is no such thing as bad vodka.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/there-is-only-good-vodka-and-very-good-vodka-there-is-no-such-thing/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) > [Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/alice-munro-can-move-characters-through-time-in-a-way-that-no-other/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) > [How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/how-rarely-do-our-emotions-meet-the-object-they-seem-to-deserve-how/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) > [You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/you-put-together-two-people-who-have-not-been-put-together-before/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) > [“Also, when you are young, you think you can predict the likely pains and bleaknesses that age might bring. You imagine yourself being lonely,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/also-when-you-are-young-you-think-you-can-predict-the-likely-pains/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) > [“Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/why-slum-it-where-people-were-burdened-by-yesterday-and-the-day/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/in-those-years-before-mobile-phones-email-and-skype-travelers/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) > [“My train was late, slowed by the usual Sunday engineering work. I got home in the early evening. I remember that I had a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/my-train-was-late-slowed-by-the-usual-sunday-engineering-work-i-got/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) > [In life, every ending is just the start of another story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/in-life-every-ending-is-just-the-start-of-another-story/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) > [“Indeed, isn’t the whole business of ascribing responsibility kind of a cop-out? We want to blame an individual so that everyone else is exculpated.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/indeed-isn-t-the-whole-business-of-ascribing-responsibility-kind-of-a/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) > [Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/some-of-the-freckles-i-once-loved-are-now-closer-to-liver-spots-but/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) > [“And what percentage of people take up the option to die off?’ She looked at me, her glance telling me to be calm. ‘Oh,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/and-what-percentage-of-people-take-up-the-option-to-die-off-she/) [Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/may/julian-barnes/#itemlist", "name": "14 May Quotes By Julian Barnes", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Julian Barnes" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/may-you-be-ordinary-as-the-poet-once-wished-the-new-born-baby/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f9/julian-barnes-522_baby_may-you-be-ordinary-as-the-poet-once-wis_1455977.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f9/julian-barnes-522_baby_may-you-be-ordinary-as-the-poet-once-wis_1455977.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f9/julian-barnes-522_baby_may-you-be-ordinary-as-the-poet-once-wis_1455977.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.” — Julian Barnes", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Julian Barnes" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/irony-may-be-defined-as-what-people-miss/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4b/julian-barnes-522_defined_irony-may-be-defined-as-what-people-miss_2438897.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4b/julian-barnes-522_defined_irony-may-be-defined-as-what-people-miss_2438897.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4b/julian-barnes-522_defined_irony-may-be-defined-as-what-people-miss_2438897.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.” — Julian Barnes", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. 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