Julian Barnes Quotes About Certainty

Quotes about: Certainty

• History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

  Julian Barnes

  Memories, Imperfection, Documentation

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.59, Random House

• When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again.

  Julian Barnes

  Mind, Admitting, Way

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

• What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. ... 'Finn?' '"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." (quoting Patrick Lagrange)

  Julian Barnes

  Memories, Lying, Self

• Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65]

  Julian Barnes

  Example, Certainty, Witness

• Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

  Julian Barnes

  Giving, Decision, Enough Time

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.93, Random House

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