Julian Barnes Quote

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Capture your youth, while you can.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

How I miss wandering around with old souls, Aimlessly moving from one place to anotherHow I miss all our dreams and our goalsAnd how we've lost ourselves to find each otherSeems like a playful game of...

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

You know that when your partner deletes their messages to a past lover after being accused of cheating, then it is likely that they were being unfaithful in some way.

A beautiful woman should always have at the back of her mind that her ravishing appearance is only an ephemeral quality. When she wakes up in the morning, looks into the mirror, and notices that somet...

With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.