--- title: "8 Nightwood Quotes by 1 author" description: "Browse 8 Nightwood quotes by 1 author. Discover the best Nightwood sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/513/djuna-barnes-3957_individual_no-man-need-curing-of-his-individual-sic_232688.png" --- > [“No man need curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/no-man-need-curing-of-his-individual-sickness-his-universal-malady-is/) [Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/513/djuna-barnes-3957_individual_no-man-need-curing-of-his-individual-sic_232688.png) > [“Those who turn the day into night, the young, the drug addict, the profligate, the drunken and that most miserable, the lover…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/those-who-turn-the-day-into-night-the-young-the-drug-addict-the/) [Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b00/djuna-barnes-3957_addict_those-who-turn-the-day-into-night-the-yo_346548.jpg) > [“Man is born as he dies, rebuking cleanliness;”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/man-is-born-as-he-dies-rebuking-cleanliness/) [Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/496/djuna-barnes-3957_cleanliness_man-is-born-as-he-dies-rebuking-cleanlin_447006.png) > [“Man makes his history with the one hand and "holds it up" with the other.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/man-makes-his-history-with-the-one-hand-and-holds-it-up-with-the-other/) [Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/370/djuna-barnes-3957_djuna-barnes_man-makes-his-history-with-the-one-hand_1026397.png) > [“We wake from our doings in a deep sweat for that they happened in a house without an address, in a street…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/we-wake-from-our-doings-in-a-deep-sweat-for-that-they-happened-in-a/) [Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc6/djuna-barnes-3957_accuse_we-wake-from-our-doings-in-a-deep-sweat_1066324.jpg) > [“His sanity is an unknown room: a known room is always smaller than an unknown.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/his-sanity-is-an-unknown-room-a-known-room-is-always-smaller-than-an/) [Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b00/djuna-barnes-3957_djuna-barnes_his-sanity-is-an-unknown-room-a-known-ro_1877036.png) > [“I also know this,’ he went on: ‘One cup poured into another makes different water; tears shed by one eye would blind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/i-also-know-this-he-went-on-one-cup-poured-into-another-makes/) [Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d49/djuna-barnes-3957_laughing_i-also-know-this-he-went-on-one-cup-pour_2040084.jpg) > [“No matter where and when you meet him you feel that he has come from some place-no matter from what place he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/no-matter-where-and-when-you-meet-him-you-feel-that-he-has-come-from/) [Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/647/djuna-barnes-3957_israel_no-matter-where-and-when-you-meet-him-yo_3132842.png) ## Top authors on Nightwood - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-djuna-barnes-29643.jpg) Djuna Barnes 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nightwood/djuna-barnes/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nightwood/#itemlist", "name": "Nightwood Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“No man need curing of his individual sickness; 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These can never again live the life of the day. When one meets them at high noon they give off, as if it were a protective emanation, something dark and muted. The light does not become them any longer. They begin to have an unrecorded look. 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Their very lack of identity makes them ourselves. For by a street number, by a house, by a name, we cease to accuse ourselves. Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. 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