Djuna Barnes Quotes

You never put her in your heart.

If there is no love in your heart - so sorry, Then there is no hope for you - true, true

Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.

Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn't bridge the gap between them, but at least it marks the spot where the bridge might be built.

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

My girlfriend has been the ice.

I don't remember feeling love.

Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both.

There was no demonstration of love I could read as a little boy.

Humans need intimacy. We've destroyed it in our country.

And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer.

The music is the void. And you're the reason why.

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.

You are so close, and I can’t reach you.

I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.

I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.

We have a very good head thing but we don't make love.

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.

Love is just a hole in the wall.

She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me.

This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.

What is a valid reason for someone to love someone else? Since apparently I’m doing it wrong.

All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.