Djuna Barnes Quotes About Skins

Quotes about: Skins

• The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

  Djuna Barnes

  Night, Skins, May

  Djuna Barnes (1995). “Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts”

• Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. Stretch it as thin as the temple flesh of an ailing woman and still it serves to ache the bone and to move the bone about; and in like manner the night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in a torment. We will find no comfort until the night melts away; until the fury of the night rots out its fire.

  Djuna Barnes

  Moving, Night, Fire

  Djuna Barnes (1995). “Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts”

• We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

  Djuna Barnes

  Wind, Skins, Mortality

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.67, Faber & Faber

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