Djuna Barnes on Life
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Djuna Barnes, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Djuna Barnes, entry #34041: "Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself."
Attributed to Djuna Barnes, entry #60359: "One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it."
5 Quotes by Djuna Barnes on Life
"Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself."
"One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it."
"We are adhering to life now with our last muscle — the heart."
"We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn’t the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life’s lived before it gets to the parlor door."
"Morbid? You make me laugh. This life I write and draw and portray is life as it is, and therefore you call it morbid. Look at my life. Look at the life around me. Where is this beauty that I am supposed to miss? The nice episodes that others depict? Is not everything morbid? I mean the life of people stripped of their masks. Where are the relieving features? Often I sit down to work at my drawing board, at my typewriter. All of a sudden my joy is gone. I feel tired of it all because, I think, "What's the use?" Today we are, tomorrow dead. We are born and don't know why. We live and suffer and strive, envious or envied. We love, we hate, we work, we admire, we despise. … Why? And we die, and no one will ever know that we have been born."