Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy
Djuna BarnesNo man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.
Djuna BarnesA man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
Djuna BarnesโGod,โ she cried, โwhat is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't tell me the truth because she had never planned it; her life was a continual accident, and how can you be prepared for that? Everything we can't bear in this world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.โ
Djuna Barnes