Filter quotes by topic
Famous Julian Barnes Quotes
Source: Nothing To Be Frightened Of
Source: Departure
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
Source: The Sense of an Ending
Source: Levels of Life
Source: Levels of Life
“The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning?”
Source: Levels of Life
“Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young.”
Source: Talking It Over
Source: The Only Story
Source: The Only Story
Source: The Only Story
“... forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on.”
Source: The Sense of an Ending
“Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death.”
Source: Nothing To Be Frightened Of
Source: The Noise of Time
Source: Talking It Over
Source: The Only Story
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
Source: The Sense of an Ending
Source: Elizabeth Finch
“No intento tejer una historia; estoy tratando de contar la verdad.”
Source: The Only Story
Source: Love, etc.
Source: Metroland
Source: The Only Story
Source: The Sense of an Ending
“There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine.”
Source: Talking It Over
Source: The Sense of an Ending
Source: The Only Story
Source: Love, etc.
“How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns?”
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
Source: The Only Story
“No existe la justicia, ni aquí ni en ninguna parte.”
Source: The Only Story
Source: The Sense of an Ending
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
Source: Levels of Life
Source: The Only Story
“Cast out the beam from your own eye before you seek to extract the mote from the eye of another.”
Source: A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
Source: The Sense of an Ending
Source: Staring at the sun
Source: The Only Story
Source: The Only Story
Source: The Sense of an Ending
Source: The Only Story
