Djuna-barnes Quote by Djuna Barnes Download Open image ““Man is born as he dies, rebuking cleanliness;”” — Djuna Barnes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Djuna-barnes Nightwood
When a defiled man is born again, his habits are changed, his thoughts cleansed, his attitudes regenerated and elevated, his activities put in total… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“That’s how life is in a sense. We cleanse and cleanse, attempting to wash away all the foul smells and filth of yesterday. And… — Malik Will Copy Share Image
“Every man is born to one possession which out values all his others - his last breath.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Men are busy dying from the moment they’re born but it’s a crawl from the cradle to the grave.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Birth, death . . .?’ ‘And nappies, madam. Things men don’t do.” — Catriona McPherson Copy Share Image
“There goes the dismantled—Love has fallen off her wall. A religious woman,” he thought to himself, “without the joy and safety of the Catholic… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember? — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same. — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
My war brought me many things; let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
“The perfume that her body exhaled was of the quality of that earth-flesh, fungi, which smells of captured dampness and yet is so dry,… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
God,' she cried, 'what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on. — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
“No man need curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.” — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. Stretch it as thin as the temple flesh of an ailing woman and still… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
“Man makes his history with the one hand and "holds it up" with the other.” — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
“His fabrications seemed to be the framework of a forgotten but imposing plan; some condition of life of which he was the sole surviving… — Shaun Whiteside Copy Share Image
“His sanity is an unknown room: a known room is always smaller than an unknown.” — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
“And I *know* I wrote in the above that I hate biographies and reviews that focus on the psychological, surface detail, especially when they… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
