Djuna-barnes Quote by Djuna Barnes Download Open image ““Man makes his history with the one hand and "holds it up" with the other.”” — Djuna Barnes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Djuna-barnes History Nightwood
“Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“I can hold you up with one hand, but you can balance me on your fingertips.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Let's never stop holding each other's hands. We all need to have our hand held sometimes.” — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
“History has had you - and me too. My hand has brushed against yours for centuries.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Don't hold onto the past, free your hands to reach for the future.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“I could conquer the world with one hand as long as you're holding the other.” — Megan Smith Copy Share Image
“It's the touching they both long for. The holding. Spent their whole lives, each without any.” — Lisa McMann 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
“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
