Djuna Barnes Quotes about Lying

All Djuna Barnes Quotes Heart Lying quotes Past Skins

Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

Lying, Love Is, Lasts

Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.147, New Directions Publishing

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 to go out, someone will try to take you out, and you will not understand them or what they are saying, unless you understand nothing, absolutely nothing, then you will manage.

Djuna Barnes

Lying, Civilization, Trying