There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.

- Djuna Barnes

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

- Djuna Barnes

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

- Djuna Barnes

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

- Djuna Barnes

Only the impossible lasts forever.

- Djuna Barnes

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

- Djuna Barnes

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

- Djuna Barnes

The whole world is nothing but a noise, as hot as the inside of a tiger's mouth. They call it civilization - that is a lie! But some day you may have…

- Djuna Barnes

New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million…

- Djuna Barnes