Quote by Julian Barnes Download Open image ““No sooner do we come into this world,’ said Flaubert, ‘than bits of us start to fall off.”” — Julian Barnes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“No sooner do we come into this world, than bits of us start to fall off.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Time grows short, my love. Let’s end with the beginning of the world, shall we? Yes. We shall.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
The world can fall to pieces around us, but in the end, we'll always make it back to us. — Cassia Leo Copy Share Image
“The end of the world is easy. We'll survive it, or we won't. But if we do survive, the rest of life is waiting.” — Michelle Sagara West Copy Share Image
“I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Although, we know that our earthly journey will end soon, we continue chasing millions which we finally have to leave behind.” — RVM Copy Share Image
“We cannot pretend that the world begins and ends at the boundaries we might make for it. Sometimes, we must acknowledge that it extends… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“Time slips. Days pass. Years fade. Life ends. And what we came to do on earth must be done while there is time!” — Milan Jed Copy Share Image
But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“How things ultimately turn out isn't up to us. It never was. But if do our bit and play our part, it's remarkable how… — Michael Neill 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