Nightwood Djuna Barnes Quotes

#1. No man need curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

Djuna Barnes

#2. I thought about texting Lucas, but what would i say? That i'd tossed and turned all night, thinking of his hands on me?

Tammara Webber

#3. Man makes his history with the one hand and "holds it up" with the other.

Djuna Barnes

#4. No matter where and when you meet him you feel that he has come from some place-no matter from what place he has come-some country that he has devoured rather than resided in, some secret land that he has been nourished on but cannot inherit, for the Jew seems to be everythere from nowhere.

Djuna Barnes

#5. Man is born as he dies, rebuking cleanliness;

Djuna Barnes

#6. Just when I thought this couldn't get any worse, he opens his mouth and tears me down even further. I'm starting to believe that my time with Jackson Stone will leave me even more damaged than I ever thought possible.

Anonymous

#7. There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation
purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

Djuna Barnes

#8. I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.

Greg Egan

#9. You have a losing team, you change the coach.

Mike Coffman

#10. His sanity is an unknown room: a known room is always smaller than an unknown.

Djuna Barnes

#11. He smiled and tapped my nose. "Two thank-yous in as many days. I don't suppose I'll get to see any, uh, special gratitude?"
I scoffed. "Nope. You'll just have to imagine it."
He gave me a half-hug and released me. "Fair enough. But I have a good imagination.

Richelle Mead

#12. Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.

Oscar Wilde