Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Old, Question, Youth)

"Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: People, Thinking)

"With renunciation life begins."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Life, Renunciation)

"Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?"
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Men, Possessions)

"When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Love, Light, Meeting)

"To be one's own master is to be the slave of self."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Self)

"Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Time, Faces, Tears)

"There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Thought, Words)

"Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Heroism, Mediocrity)

"Novels are longer than life."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Life)

"Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Virtue, Seduction)

"Lovers should also have their days off."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Lovers)

"It is time for dead languages to be quiet."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Time, Quiet)

"If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Mind, Open)

"How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Life, Fatigue, Leisure, Needs)

"Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Trouble)

"Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable."
- Natalie Clifford Barney
(Related: Man)