Famous Quotes / Natalie Clifford Barney
18 Quotations by Natalie Clifford Barney
- 1. Eternity -- waste of time.
- 2. Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
- 3. How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
- 4. If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
- 5. Lovers should also have their days off.
- 6. Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
- 7. Novels are longer than life.
- 8. Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
- 9. Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
- 10. The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
- 11. There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no o ...
- 12. Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
- 13. To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
- 14. We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call t ...
- 15. When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one y ...
- 16. Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wis ...
- 17. Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
- 18. Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.